“Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.”

“It takes all sorts of people to make a world.”

“Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.”

“Honest bread is very well - it's the butter that makes the temptation.”

“If slander be a snake it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.”

“The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I was a grave digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.”

“Quality not quantity is my measure.”

“A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!”

“A Conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ancient institution the old one.”

“Happiness grows at our firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.”

“Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.”