In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.