Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.
There is no education like adversity.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Never complain and never explain.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses.
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.
Rothschild is the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions.
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.
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