People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times!

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.