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.

There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.

Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.