Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

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.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.