WednesdayNov 26, 2025
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Characters do not change.- Opinions alter, but characters Are only developed.
Change is inevitable...Change is constant.
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Action may not always bring happiness; But there is no happiness without action.
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.
I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations.
Finality is not the language of politics.
The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having reflected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
I have always thought that every woman should marry - and no man.
Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
A sound Conservative government... Tory men and Whig measures.
A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation.
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
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.
With words we govern men.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and is always pilfered when dead.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Everything in this world depends upon will.
There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
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.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
It is the lot of man to suffer.
Justice is truth in actions.
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.
That when a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire.
Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.
I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Books are the curse of the human race.
Change is inevitable.... Change is constant.
In a progressive country change is constant; ... change ... is inevitable.
His Christianity was muscular.
Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creature of man.
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
This shows how much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
You know who critics are?the men who have failed in literature and art.
The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.
The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth: let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair.
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.
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.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Only think of Cockie Graves having gone and done it!
A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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.
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
Mr. Kremlin was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.
A man who is not a liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a conservative at sixty has no head.
Life is too short to be little.
Little things affect little minds.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
We are all born for love.... It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
It destroys ones nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. Every woman should marry and no man
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius
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.
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
... the Arch-Mediocrity who presided, rather than ruled, over this Cabinet of Mediocrities.
The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.
All power is a trust; and we are accountable for its exercise.
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.
A precedent embalms a principle.
Principle is ever my motto, not expediency.
Property has its duties as well as its rights.
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.
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.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
'As for that,' said Waldenshare, 'sensible men are all of the same religion.' 'Pray, what is that?' inquired the Prince. 'Sensible men never tell.'
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.
Gladstone speaking of Disraeli: A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
Never complain and never explain.
What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
The most successful people in life are generally those who have the best information.
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day, and the race a life.
The sweet simplicity of the three percents.
Time is precious but truth is more precious than time.
To do nothing and get something, formed a boys ideal of a manly career.
He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
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.
That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous People, is my Prayer; that these great consequences can only be brought about by the energy and devotion of our Youth is my persuasion. 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.
Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.
The essence of education is the education of the body.
How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
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