"Does a man of your intelligence come to me with these damned early Victorian ethics?
If, on studying my features and manner, you detect any particular resemblance to the Prince Consort, I assure you you are mistaken.

Did Herbert Spencer ever convince you--did he ever convince anybody--did he ever for one mad moment convince himself--that it must be to the interest of the individual to feel a public spirit?
Do you believe that, if you rule your department badly, you stand any more chance, or one half of the chance, of being guillotined, that an angler stands of being pulled into the river by a strong pike?
Herbert Spencer refrained from theft for the same reason that he refrained from wearing feathers in his hair, because he was an English gentleman with different tastes.

I am an English gentleman with different tastes.

He liked philosophy.

I like art.