“I have also a notion that any number of bundles of the driest legal chaff that ever was chopped would be cheaply expended for one really meritorious engraving.”

Humorously asserting the enduring public worth of visual art · Speech, Artists' Benevolent Fund, London, 8 May 1858

• Art
• Humour

“The benefits he acquires in such a place are not of a selfish kind, but extend themselves to his home, and to those whom it contains.”

Seeing education as something whose benefits spread through families · Speech, Manchester, 5 October 1843

• Friendship
• Hope

“The hardest head may co-exist with the softest heart.”

Rejecting the assumption that intellect and tenderness are opposites · Speech, Manchester, 3 December 1858

• Love
• Truth