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