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.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
We moralize among ruins.
Finality is not the language of politics.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
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.
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.
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.
The expected always happens
Life is to short to be small.
I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.
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.
Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
Without tact you can learn nothing.
An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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