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