The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

Protection is not a principle but an expedient

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

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.