I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

Amusement to an observing mind is study.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.