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