"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."

"Power has its duties as well as its rights."

"The noble lord is the Prince Rupert of parliamentary discussion: his charge is resistless, but when he returns from the pursuit he always finds his camp in the possession of the enemy."

"Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory."

"The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world."