What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

In politics experiments means revolutions.

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

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 sweet simplicity of the three percents.