The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Instead of the city of the Violet Crown, a Lancashire village has expanded into a mighty region of factories and warehouses. Yet, rightly understood, Manchester is as great a human exploit; as Athens.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.