Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Never complain and never explain.
Finality is not the language of politics.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.
War is never a solution it is an aggravation.
The 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.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
There is no gambling like politics.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Great countries are those that produce great people.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Justice is truth in action.
I say that justice is truth in action.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Silence is the mother of truth.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
There is no education like adversity.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
We cannot learn men from books.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Travel teaches toleration.
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Duty cannot exist without faith.
In politics nothing is contemptible.
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.
Success is the child of audacity.