A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

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.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.