He can't help it.

He thinks he works from duty, public spirit, and other fine influences; I know it is simply from an irrepressible instinct.

I do assure you, I never yet bore any man the least ill-will.
I've had to remove two or three, not because I hated them--I did not care a button for any--but because their existence was incompatible with my safety, which, Sir, is the first thing to me, as yours is to you.
Human laws we respect--ha, ha!--you and I, because they subserve our convenience, and just so long.

When they tend to our destruction, 'tis, of course, another thing.' This, it must be allowed, was frank enough; there was no bargain here; and what ever Mr.Dangerfield's plan might have been, it certainly did not involve making terms with Lord Dunoran beforehand, or palliating or disguising what he had done.

So on he went.
'I believe in luck, Sir, and there's the sum of my creed.