What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Books are the curse of the human race.

I say that justice is truth in action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.