Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

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.