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.
Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.
Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .
Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
The essence of education is the education of the body.
Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.
Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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.
Religion is civilization, the highest.
Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.
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.
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
A canter is the cure for all evil.
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.
The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.
There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.
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.
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