Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.

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

There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.

Protection is not a principle but an expedient

The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.

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.