The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

Everything in this world depends upon will.