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