TuesdayApr 14, 2026
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How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
The essence of education is the education of the body.
Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.
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.
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.
He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
To do nothing and get something, formed a boys ideal of a manly career.
Time is precious but truth is more precious than time.
The sweet simplicity of the three percents.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day, and the race a life.
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
The most successful people in life are generally those who have the best information.
What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
Never complain and never explain.
Gladstone speaking of Disraeli: A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
'As for that,' said Waldenshare, 'sensible men are all of the same religion.' 'Pray, what is that?' inquired the Prince. 'Sensible men never tell.'
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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.
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.
Property has its duties as well as its rights.
Principle is ever my motto, not expediency.
A precedent embalms a principle.
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.
All power is a trust; and we are accountable for its exercise.
We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.
The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
... the Arch-Mediocrity who presided, rather than ruled, over this Cabinet of Mediocrities.
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius
The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
It destroys ones nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. Every woman should marry and no man
We are all born for love.... It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Little things affect little minds.
Life is too short to be little.
A man who is not a liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a conservative at sixty has no head.
If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
Mr. Kremlin was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
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.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.
Only think of Cockie Graves having gone and done it!
Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
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.
I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth: let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair.
The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.
You know who critics are?the men who have failed in literature and art.
This shows how much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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.
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creature of man.
His Christianity was muscular.
In a progressive country change is constant; ... change ... is inevitable.
Change is inevitable.... Change is constant.
Books are the curse of the human race.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
That when a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire.
He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
Justice is truth in actions.
It is the lot of man to suffer.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
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.
There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
Everything in this world depends upon will.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and is always pilfered when dead.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
With words we govern men.
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.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation.
A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
A sound Conservative government... Tory men and Whig measures.
Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
I have always thought that every woman should marry - and no man.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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.
The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.
Finality is not the language of politics.
I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations.
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.
Action may not always bring happiness; But there is no happiness without action.
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Change is inevitable...Change is constant.
Characters do not change.- Opinions alter, but characters Are only developed.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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