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