The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

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.

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

Never complain and never explain.