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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.
I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.
Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.
Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.
Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.
The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”
It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.
Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.
Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'
She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.
Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses.
Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.
Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.
The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].
Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.
To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.
Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.
What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.
There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.
As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.
In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.
There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.
Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.