Silence is the mother of truth.
Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Duty cannot exist without faith.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
Finality is not the language of politics.
Success is the child of audacity.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
There is no gambling like politics.
I say that justice is truth in action.
War is never a solution it is an aggravation.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Travel teaches toleration.
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
Justice is truth in action.
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
Great countries are those that produce great people.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
In politics nothing is contemptible.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
There is no education like adversity.
Never complain and never explain.
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
We cannot learn men from books.