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.

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.