Top quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Votes: 33

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. Votes: 27

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor. Votes: 23

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. Votes: 20

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. Votes: 20

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Votes: 16

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. Votes: 16

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Votes: 16

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy. Votes: 15

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. Votes: 14

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. Votes: 14

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. Votes: 13

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. Votes: 13

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. Votes: 13

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay. Votes: 12

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power. Votes: 12

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both. Votes: 12

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. Votes: 11

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. Votes: 11

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray. Votes: 11

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. Votes: 11

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Votes: 11

Assassination has never changed the history of the world. Votes: 11

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. Votes: 10

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. Votes: 7

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. Votes: 6

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. Votes: 4

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder. Votes: 4

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. Votes: 4

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. Votes: 4

Justice is truth in action. Votes: 0

I say that justice is truth in action. Votes: 0

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Votes: 0

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. Votes: 0

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. Votes: 0

Change is inevitable. Change is constant. Votes: 0

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. Votes: 0

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. Votes: 0

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. Votes: 0

Great countries are those that produce great people. Votes: 0

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. Votes: 0

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men. Votes: 0

There is no education like adversity. Votes: 0

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. Votes: 0

That fatal drollery called a representative government. Votes: 0

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. Votes: 0

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. Votes: 0

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation. Votes: 0

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children. Votes: 0

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. Votes: 0

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. Votes: 0

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end. Votes: 0

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. Votes: 0

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. Votes: 0

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. Votes: 0

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern. Votes: 0

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. Votes: 0

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. Votes: 0

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. Votes: 0

Man is only great when he acts from passion. Votes: 0

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet. Votes: 0

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. Votes: 0

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others. Votes: 0

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. Votes: 0

Finality is not the language of politics. Votes: 0

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. Votes: 0

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. Votes: 0

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes. Votes: 0

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? Votes: 0

The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties; they always have a resource, they always have the House. People without cares do not require as much food as those whose life entails anxieties. See how long they live! Votes: 0

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation. Votes: 0

Small things affects small minds. Votes: 0

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Votes: 0

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions. Votes: 0

Adventures are to the adventurous. Votes: 0

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. Votes: 0

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. Votes: 0

Amusement to an observing mind is study. Votes: 0

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. Votes: 0

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. Votes: 0

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. Votes: 0

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension. Votes: 0

Where knowledge ends, religion begins. Votes: 0

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. Votes: 0

Success is the child of audacity. Votes: 0

Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon. Votes: 0

London is a modern Babylon. Votes: 0

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other. Votes: 0

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Votes: 0

Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished. Votes: 0

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb. Votes: 0

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. Votes: 0

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. Votes: 0

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense. Votes: 0

It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or the vanity of individuals, have any great effect upon the fortunes or the power of parties. And it is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption are means by which power can either be ob-tained or retained. Votes: 0

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity. Votes: 0

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. Votes: 0

Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet. Votes: 0

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. Votes: 0

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. Votes: 0

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress. Votes: 0

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. Votes: 0

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent. Votes: 0

Never complain and never explain. Votes: 0

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. Votes: 0

The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Votes: 0

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy. Votes: 0

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity. Votes: 0

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. Votes: 0

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art. Votes: 0

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph. Votes: 0

The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph. Votes: 0

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate. Votes: 0

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget. Votes: 0

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. Votes: 0

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them. Votes: 0

Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets. Votes: 0

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England. Votes: 0

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind. Votes: 0

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires. Votes: 0

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. Votes: 0

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. Votes: 0

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones. Votes: 0

There can be economy only where there is efficiency. Votes: 0

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. Votes: 0

Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition. Votes: 0

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers. Votes: 0

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. Votes: 0

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world. Votes: 0

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman. Votes: 0

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations. Votes: 0

The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories. Votes: 0

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. Votes: 0

There is moderation even in excess. Votes: 0

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. Votes: 0

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity. Votes: 0

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself. Votes: 0

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. Votes: 0

Female friendships are of rapid growth. Votes: 0

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. Votes: 0

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. Votes: 0

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house. Votes: 0

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission. Votes: 0

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. Votes: 0

There is no wisdom like frankness. Votes: 0

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient. Votes: 0

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. Votes: 0

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. Votes: 0

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. Votes: 0

There is no gambling like politics. Votes: 0

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments. Votes: 0

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy. Votes: 0

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief. Votes: 0

The gondola of London [a hansom]. Votes: 0

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine. Votes: 0

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar. Votes: 0

Never take anything for granted. Votes: 0

I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth. Votes: 0

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. Votes: 0

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. Votes: 0

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. Votes: 0

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. Votes: 0

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose. Votes: 0

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever. Votes: 0

I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility. Votes: 0

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. Votes: 0

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. Votes: 0

What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Instead of the city of the Violet Crown, a Lancashire village has expanded into a mighty region of factories and warehouses. Yet, rightly understood, Manchester is as great a human exploit; as Athens. Votes: 0

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. Votes: 0

When I want to read a novel, I write one. Votes: 0

Life is too short to be little. Votes: 0

Little things affect little minds. Votes: 0

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. Votes: 0

London is a roost for every bird. Votes: 0

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye. Votes: 0

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost. Votes: 0

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did. Votes: 0

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour. Votes: 0

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. Votes: 0

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. Votes: 0

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. Votes: 0

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. Votes: 0

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress. Votes: 0

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor. Votes: 0

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart. Votes: 0

Ignorance never settles a question. Votes: 0

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense. Votes: 0

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. Votes: 0

Nurture your mind with great thoughts Votes: 0

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time. Votes: 0

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others. Votes: 0

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. Votes: 0

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. Votes: 0

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. Votes: 0

A precedent embalms a principle. Votes: 0

Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself. Votes: 0

The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman. Votes: 0

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance. Votes: 0

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures. Votes: 0

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. Votes: 0

The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll. Votes: 0

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it. Votes: 0

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves. Votes: 0

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability. Votes: 0

Rothschild is the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions. Votes: 0

Rothschild is the lord and master of the money markerts of the world and virtually lord and master of everything else. Votes: 0

Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild - a name famous in every capital of Europe and every division of the globe. If you like, we shall divide the United States into two parts, one for you, James [Rothschild], and one for you, Lionel [Rothschild]. Napoleon will do exactly and all that I shall advise him. Votes: 0

We moralize among ruins. Votes: 0

The secret of success is constancy of purpose Votes: 0

Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with a thick trowel Votes: 0

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth Votes: 0

Diligence is the mother of good fortune Votes: 0

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime Votes: 0

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day Votes: 0

His Christianity was muscular Votes: 0

Books are fatal they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing Votes: 0

Assassination has never changed the history of the world Votes: 0

What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens Votes: 0

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: Adventures are to the adventurous Votes: 0

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools. Votes: 0

In politics, nothing is contemptible. Votes: 0

There is no index of character as sure as the voice. Votes: 0

Travel teaches toleration. Votes: 0

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you. Votes: 0

Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. Votes: 0

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. Votes: 0

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics. Votes: 0

Silence is the mother of truth. Votes: 0

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason. Votes: 0

It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads. Votes: 0

Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it. Votes: 0

A majority is always better than the best repartee. Votes: 0

The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause. Votes: 0

An author can have nothing truly his own but his style. Votes: 0

Without tact you can learn nothing. Votes: 0

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd. Votes: 0

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything. Votes: 0

A person's fate is their own temper. Votes: 0

The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble. Votes: 0

The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise. Votes: 0

It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light. Votes: 0

Variety is the mother of Enjoyment. Votes: 0

Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement. Votes: 0

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory. Votes: 0

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. Votes: 0

There is no index of character so sure as the voice. Votes: 0

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. Votes: 0

Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery. Votes: 0

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. Votes: 0

The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete. Votes: 0

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others. Votes: 0

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. Votes: 0

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. Votes: 0

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. Votes: 0

As for our majority... one is enough. Votes: 0

In politics nothing is contemptible. Votes: 0

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him. Votes: 0

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. Votes: 0

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. Votes: 0

The fool wonders, the wise man asks. Votes: 0

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are. Votes: 0

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. Votes: 0

If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events. Votes: 0

The greatest of all evils is a weak government Votes: 0

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse Votes: 0

Man is more powerful than matter. Votes: 0

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists. Votes: 0

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. Votes: 0

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. Votes: 0

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world. Votes: 0

We cannot learn men from books. Votes: 0

Duty cannot exist without faith Votes: 0

Difficulties melt away under tact. Votes: 0

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment. Votes: 0

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation. Votes: 0

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. Votes: 0

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell." Votes: 0

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate. Votes: 0

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter. Votes: 0

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman. Votes: 0

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results. Votes: 0

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination. Votes: 0

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few. Votes: 0

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars. Votes: 0

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few. Votes: 0

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. Votes: 0

All my successes have been built on my failures. Votes: 0

"Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter. Votes: 0

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance. Votes: 0

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. Votes: 0

An obedient wife commands her husband. Votes: 0

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering. Votes: 0

Great men never require experience. Votes: 0

He who gains time gains everything. Votes: 0

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. Votes: 0

Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses. Votes: 0

The essence of education is the education of the body. Votes: 0

How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts. Votes: 0

The indulgence in grief is a blunder. Votes: 0

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence. Votes: 0

Everything comes if a man will only wait. Votes: 0

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow. Votes: 0

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations. Votes: 0

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth. Votes: 0

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence. Votes: 0

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity. Votes: 0

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages. Votes: 0

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. Votes: 0

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet. Votes: 0

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation. Votes: 0

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour. Votes: 0

A book may be as great a thing as a battle. Votes: 0

Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose. Votes: 0

All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed. Votes: 0

When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous Votes: 0

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen. Votes: 0

Fear makes us feel our humanity. Votes: 0

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times. Votes: 0

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth. Votes: 0

The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . . Votes: 0

The originality of a subject is in its treatment. Votes: 0

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question. Votes: 0

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination. Votes: 0

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. Votes: 0

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular. Votes: 0

Quit the world, and the world forgets you. Votes: 0

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth. Votes: 0

Religion is civilization, the highest. Votes: 0

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. Votes: 0

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it. Votes: 0

With words we govern men. Votes: 0

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial. Votes: 0

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray. Votes: 0

Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man. Votes: 0

If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality. Votes: 0

England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation. Votes: 0

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. Votes: 0

As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not. Votes: 0

I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity. Votes: 0

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance. Votes: 0

Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment. Votes: 0

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits. Votes: 0

Despair is the conclusion of fools. Votes: 0

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity. Votes: 0

To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you Votes: 0

There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce. Votes: 0

We make our own fortune and call it destiny. Votes: 0

I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole! Votes: 0

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system. Votes: 0

I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last. Votes: 0

Be thine own privy counsellor. Votes: 0

A canter is the cure for all evil. Votes: 0

The world is governed by personalities very different to what people that cannot see further than their eyes, believe Votes: 0

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete. Votes: 0

We make our fortunes and we call them fate. Votes: 0

The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any. Votes: 0

Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism? Votes: 0

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans. Votes: 0

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England. Votes: 0

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes. Votes: 0

England does not love coalitions. Votes: 0

A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence. Votes: 0

Party is organized opinion. Votes: 0

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers. Votes: 0

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people. Votes: 0

A man's fate is his own temper. Votes: 0

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage. Votes: 0

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy. Votes: 0

A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears. Votes: 0

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'. Votes: 0

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical. Votes: 0

This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition in the House of Commons, I have stormed the Treasury Benches: twice, fruitlessly, the third time with a tin kettle to my tail which rendered the race hopeless. You cannot, therefore, be surprised, that I am a little wearied of these barren victories, which like Alma , Inkerman, and Balaclava , may be glorious but are certainly nothing more. Votes: 0

The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know. Votes: 0

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense. Votes: 0

London; a nation, not a city. Votes: 0

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time. Votes: 0

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen. Votes: 0

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man. Votes: 0

You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment. Votes: 0

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and therefore when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which, I hope, will keep it great. Votes: 0

I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension. Votes: 0

Every moment is travel - if understood. Votes: 0

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world. Votes: 0

There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers. Votes: 0

I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence. Votes: 0

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled. Votes: 0

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government. Votes: 0

Everything in this world depends upon will. Votes: 0

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness. Votes: 0

The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe. Votes: 0

I believe absence is a great element of charm. Votes: 0

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession. Votes: 0

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods. Votes: 0

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable. Votes: 0

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be. Votes: 0

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency. Votes: 0

Beauty can inspire miracles. Votes: 0

The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people. Votes: 0

I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister. Votes: 0

And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style. Votes: 0

What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school. Votes: 0

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this. Votes: 0

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality. Votes: 0

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power. Votes: 0

The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world. Votes: 0

Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created. Votes: 0

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence. Votes: 0

Tobacco is the tomb of love. Votes: 0

In politics experiments means revolutions. Votes: 0

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life. Votes: 0

Enthusiasm is the breath of genius. Votes: 0

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament. Votes: 0

No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout. Votes: 0

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires. Votes: 0

Meditation is culture. Votes: 0

To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career. Votes: 0

The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. Votes: 0

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly. Votes: 0

You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible. Votes: 0

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull. Votes: 0

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress. Votes: 0

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights. Votes: 0

Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man. Votes: 0

You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews. Votes: 0

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. Votes: 0

I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. Votes: 0

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data. Votes: 0

Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the Votes: 0

Her Majesty is not a subject. Votes: 0

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune. Votes: 0

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it. Votes: 0

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate. Votes: 0

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis. Votes: 0

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth. Votes: 0

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Votes: 0

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals? Votes: 0

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds. Votes: 0

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal. Votes: 0

News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news. Votes: 0

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful. Votes: 0

Though I sit down now, thetime will come whenyou will hear me. Votes: 0

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything. Votes: 0

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me. Votes: 0

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick. Votes: 0

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour. Votes: 0

You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows. Votes: 0

It is the lot of man to suffer. Votes: 0

Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns. Votes: 0

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man. Votes: 0

It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus! Votes: 0

Every man should marry - and no woman Votes: 0

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world. Votes: 0

Life is to short to be small. Votes: 0

There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it. Votes: 0

All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise. Votes: 0

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr. Votes: 0

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life. Votes: 0

In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity. Votes: 0

Nature is stronger than education. Votes: 0

You have proved it is a very moral habit. Votes: 0

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter. Votes: 0

No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert. Votes: 0

If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete. Votes: 0

Protection is not a principle but an expedient Votes: 0

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them. Votes: 0

Genius, when young, is divine. Votes: 0

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded. Votes: 0

Youth is the trustee of prosperity. Votes: 0

The expected always happens Votes: 0

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. Votes: 0

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. Votes: 0

The canter is a cure for every evil. Votes: 0

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. Votes: 0

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish. Votes: 0

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead. Votes: 0

We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow. Votes: 0

Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead. Votes: 0

No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius. Votes: 0

A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man. Votes: 0

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few. Votes: 0

The sweet simplicity of the three percents. Votes: 0

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief. Votes: 0

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Votes: 0

Books are the curse of the human race. Votes: 0

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels. Votes: 0

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand. Votes: 0

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic. Votes: 0

The depositary of power is always unpopular. Votes: 0

What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition. Votes: 0

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right. Votes: 0

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing. Votes: 0

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them. Votes: 0

No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood. Votes: 0

It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is—the determination to maintain the Empire of England. Votes: 0

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas. Votes: 0

That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think. Votes: 0

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies ; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people. Votes: 0

All is race - there is no other truth. Votes: 0

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear. Votes: 0

A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience. Votes: 0

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble. Votes: 0

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. Votes: 0

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language. Votes: 0

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it. Votes: 0

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will. Votes: 0

Destiny is our will, and our will is nature. Votes: 0

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist. Votes: 0

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.” Votes: 0

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. Votes: 0

A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt. Votes: 0

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate. Votes: 0

The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims. Votes: 0

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools. Votes: 0

Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety. Votes: 0

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. Votes: 0

There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party. Votes: 0

The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob. Votes: 0

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man. Votes: 0

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.' Votes: 0

Damn your principles! Stick to your party. Votes: 0

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur. Votes: 0

There is no diplomacy like silence. Votes: 0

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics. Votes: 0

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law. Votes: 0

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it. Votes: 0

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce. Votes: 0

The English nation is never so great as in adversity. Votes: 0

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music! Votes: 0

A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor. Votes: 0

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy. Votes: 0

Change is constant in a progressive country. Votes: 0

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain. Votes: 0

Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing. Votes: 0

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary. Votes: 0

We are taught words, not ideas. Votes: 0

The unfortunate are always egotistical. Votes: 0

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites. Votes: 0

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism. Votes: 0

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other. Votes: 0

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses. Votes: 0

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation. Votes: 0

Turtle makes all men equal. Votes: 0

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms. Votes: 0

Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath. Votes: 0

This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth. Votes: 0

Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection. Votes: 0

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon. Votes: 0

All must respect those who respect themselves. Votes: 0

No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep. Votes: 0

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion. Votes: 0

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions. Votes: 0

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs. Votes: 0

As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief. Votes: 0

Luck is what a capricious man believes in. Votes: 0

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter. Votes: 0

I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. Votes: 0

Information upon points of practical politics. Votes: 0

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law. Votes: 0

A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty. Votes: 0

A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance. Votes: 0

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented. Votes: 0

Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England. Votes: 0

The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism,but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends. Votes: 0

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society. Votes: 0

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims. Votes: 0

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded. Votes: 0

Departure should be sudden. Votes: 0

There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel. Votes: 0