I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.
A book may be as great a thing as a battle.
If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.
I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.
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.
Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.
A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.
Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.
The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.
As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.
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.
Small things affects small minds.
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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 arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
Duty cannot exist without faith
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.
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