When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
There are three types of lies — lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
Sir, I shall not defeat you – I shall transcend you.
Read no history–nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
There is no index of character as sure as the voice.
Justice is truth in action.~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851
I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves.
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension.
The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.
Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
Man is not the creature of circumstances Circumstances are the creatures of men.
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
Frank and explicit – this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.
There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.
Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels.
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civi-lizers of man.
We are all born for love it is the principle of existence and its only end.
For life in general there is but one decree: youth is a blunder manhood a struggle old age a regret.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.
A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.
The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion I think it must be gratitude.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation and not by calendars and each moment is a day.
Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
Time is precious but truth is more precious than time.
Worry is 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.
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Nationality is the miracle of political independence race is the principle of physical analogy.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.