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.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.