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.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

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

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.