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