Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

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.

No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people.