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