Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

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.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

The depositary of power is always unpopular.