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I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.
For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.
Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.
Wear your knowledge like your watch - in you pocket - and don't pull it out just for show.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.
Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.
The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.
Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.
At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.
Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; Both most are valued where they best are known.
Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.
Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.
The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.
I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years.
Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves
Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.
The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.
The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.
My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.
Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.
The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.
In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.
I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.
Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.
The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.
The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.
Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior.
If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.