I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.