All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

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.

In politics experiments means revolutions.

The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people.