“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading.”

“Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.”

“Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.”

“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds”

“I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and pleasantry on both sides, 'Whether supposing that the flavour of a big who obtained his death by whipping (per flagellationem extremem) superadded a pleasure upon the palate of a man more intense than any possible suffering we can conceive in the animal, is man justified in using that method of putting an animal to death?' I forget the decision.”