'The modern world stinks.'

'I realise that steam engines aren't everyone's cup of tea. But they're what made England great.'

'We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other.'

'A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar.'

I do not oppose the insane asylum - but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asyl…

Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays, For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise.

In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.