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