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.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

An obedient wife commands her husband.