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 is no gambling like politics.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.