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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.
He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.
There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse
The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.
The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.
Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.
The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.
If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.
Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.
You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.
Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.
That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.
Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.
One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.
Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.