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Friendship Is The Gift Of The Gods, And The Most Precious Boon To Man.

We Make Our Own Fortune And Call It Destiny.

When I Left The Dining Room After Sitting Next To Mr. Gladstone, I Thought He Was The Cleverest Man In England. But After Sitting Next To Mr. Disraeli, I Thought I Was The Cleverest Woman In England.

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There Are Some Silent People Who Are More Interesting Than The Best Talkers.

Twilight Makes Us Pensive; Aurora Is The Goddess Of Activity; Despair Curses At Midnight; Hope Blesses At Noon.

Having The Courage To Live Within One's Means Is Respectability.

When A Man Is Going To Try And Borrow Money, It Is Wise To Look Prosperous

Christianity Teaches Us To Love Our Neighbor As Ourself; Modern Society Acknowledges No Neighbor.

O Music! Miraculous Art! A Blast Of Thy Trumpet And Millions Rush Forward To Die; A Peal Of Thy Organ And Uncounted Nations Sink Down To Pray.

No Enemy Is Indeed So Terrible As A Man Of Genius.

Novelty Is An Essential Attribute Of The Beautiful.

Little Things Affect Little Minds.

The Feathered Arrow Of Satire Has Oft Been Wet With The Heart's Blood Of Its Victims.

You Will In Due Season Find Your Property Is Less Valuable, And Your Freedom Less Complete.

Religion Is Civilization, The Highest.

Knowledge Must Be Gained By Ourselves. Mankind May Supply Us With Facts; But The Results, Even If They Agree With Previous Ones, Must Be The Work Of Our Own Minds.

The Divine Right Of Kings May Have Been A Plea For Feeble Tyrants, But The Divine Right Of Government Is The Keystone Of Human Progress, And Without It Governments Sink Into Police, And A Nation Is Degraded Into A Mob.

Coquettes Are, But Too Rare. It Is A Career That Requires Great Abilities, Infinite Pains, A Gay And Airy Spirit. 't Is The Coquette Who Provides All The Amusements,--suggests The Riding-party, Plans The Picnic, Gives And Guesses Charades, Acts Them. She Is The Stirring Element Amid The Heavy Congeries Of Social Atoms,--the Soul Of The House, The Salt Of The Banquet.

Judaism Is Not Complete Without Christianity And Without Judaism, Christianity Would Not Exist.

You Know Who The Critics Are? The Men Who Have Failed In Literature And Art.

Lord Salisbury And Myself Have Brought You Back Peace--but A Peace I Hope With Honour.

Great Countries Are Those That Produce Great People.

A Great Thing Is A Great Book; But A Greater Thing Than All Is The Talk Of A Great Man.

I Am Neither A Whig Nor Tory. My Politics Are Described In One Word And That Word Is England.

Fame Has Eagle Wings, And Yet She Mounts Not So High As Man's Desires.

London Owes Everything To Its Press: It Owes As Much To Its Press As It Does To Its Being The Seat Of Government And The Law.

The Conduct Of Men Depends Upon Their Temperament, Not Upon A Bunch Of Musty Maxims.

I Have Always Thought That Every Woman Should Marry, And No Man.

Free Trade Is Not A Principle, It Is An Expedient.

News Is That Which Comes From The North, East, West And South, And If It Comes From Only One Point On The Compass, Then It Is A Class; Publication And Not News.

There Is No Waste Of Time In Life Like That Of Making Explanations.

Almost Everything That Is Great Has Been Done By Youth.

What Art Was To The Ancient World, Science Is To The Modern: The Distinctive Faculty. In The Minds Of Men The Useful Has Succeeded To The Beautiful. Instead Of The City Of The Violet Crown, A Lancashire Village Has Expanded Into A Mighty Region Of Factories And Warehouses. Yet, Rightly Understood, Manchester Is As Great A Human Exploit; As Athens.

Success Is The Child Of Audacity.

In Politics Experiments Means Revolutions.

Great Revolutions, Whatever May Be Their Causes, Are Not Lightly Commenced, And Are Not Concluded With Precipitation.

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.

There Are Amusing People Who Do Not Interest, And Interesting People Who Do Not Amuse

As A Rule, Man Is A Fool. When It's Hot, He Wants It Cool; When Its Cool, He Wants It Hot. Always Wanting, What Is Not.

Fear Makes Us Feel Our Humanity.

Coalitions Though Successful Have Always Found This, That Their Triumph Has Been Brief.

The Girl Of The Period Sets Up To Be Natural, And Is Only Rude; Mistakes Insolence For Innocence; Says Everything That Comes First To Her Lips, And Thinks She Is Gay When She Is Only Giddy.

A University Should Be A Place Of Light, Of Liberty, And Of Learning.

We Are All Born For Love. It Is The Principle Of Existence, And Its Only End.

A New Acquaintance Is Like A New Book. I Prefer It, Even If Bad, To A Classic.

Increased Means And Increased Leisure Are The Two Civilizers Of Man.

Beauty Can Inspire Miracles.

Whatever They Did, The Elysians Were Careful Never To Be Vehement.

My Idea Of An Acceptable Person Is Someone That Is Ready To Accept My Ideas.

No Man Will Treat With Indifference The Principle Of Race. It Is The Key To History, And Why History Is Often So Confused Is That It Has Been Written By Men Who Are Ignorant Of This Principle And All The Knowledge It Involves. . . Language And Religion Do Not Make A Race--there Is Only One Thing Which Makes A Race, And That Is Blood.

Extreme Views Are Never Just; Something Always Turns Up Which Disturbs The Calculations Formed Upon Their Data.

I Think There Is Nothing More Lovely Than The Love Of Two Beautiful Women Who Are Not Envious Of Each Other's Charms.

Silence Often Expresses 'more Powerfully Than Speech The Verdict And Judgment Of Society.

Romance Has Been Elegantly Defined As The Offspring Of Fiction And Love.

Without Publicity There Can Be No Public Support, And Without Public Support Every Nation Must Decay.

People Are Defeated By Easy, Victorious And Cheap Successes More Than By Adversity.

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.

That Earliest Shock In One's Life Which Occurs To All Of Us; Which First Makes Us Think.

For Nearly Five Years The Present Ministers Have Harassed Every Trade, Worried Every Profession, And Assailed Or Menaced Every Class, Institution, And Species Of Property In The Country. Occasionally They Have Varied This State Of Civil Warfare By Perpetrating Some Job Which Outraged Public Opinion, Or By Stumbling Into Mistakes Which Have Been Always Discreditable, And Sometimes Ruinous. All This They Call A Policy, And Seem Quite Proud Of It; But The Country Has, I Think, Made Up Its Mind To Close This Career Of Plundering And Blundering.

Variety Is The Mother Of Enjoyment.

Duty Cannot Exist Without Faith

Life Is Too Short To Be Little. Man Is Never So Manly As When He Feels Deeply, Acts Boldly, And Expresses Himself With Frankness And With Fervour.

Life Is Too Short

Enthusiasm Is The Breath Of Genius.

What We Call The Heart Is A Nervous Sensation, Like Shyness, Which Gradually Disappears In Society. It Is Fervent In The Nursery, Strong In The Domestic Circle, Tumultuous At School.

I Have A Great Confidence In The Revelations Which Holidays Bring Forth.

Great Confidence

A Beautiful Hand Is An Excellent Thing In Woman; It Is A Charm That Never Palls; And Better Than All, It Is A Means Of Fascinating That Never Disappears.

A Book May Be As Great A Thing As A Battle.

Man Is Only Great When He Acts From Passion.

Everything Comes If A Man Will Only Wait.

Under This Roof Are The Heads Of The Family Of Rothschild - A Name Famous In Every Capital Of Europe And Every Division Of The Globe. If You Like, We Shall Divide The United States Into Two Parts, One For You, James [rothschild], And One For You, Lionel [rothschild]. Napoleon Will Do Exactly And All That I Shall Advise Him.

The Stage Is A Supplement To The Pulpit, Where Virtue, According To Plato's Sublime Idea, Moves Our Love And Affection When Made Visible To The Eye.

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.

A Dark Horse, Which Had Never Been Thought Of, Rushed Past The Grandstand In Sweeping Triumph.

When Men Are Young, They Want Experience And When They Have Gained Experience, They Want Energy.

Certainly Manchester Is The Most Wonderful City Of Modern Times!

Patriotism Depends As Much On Mutual Suffering As On Mutual Success; And It Is By That Experience Of All Fortunes And All Feelings That A Great National Character Is Created.

A Female Friend, Amiable, Clever, And Devoted, Is A Possession More Valuable Than Parks And Palaces; And Without Such A Muse, Few Men Can Succeed In Life, None Be Contented.

Books Are The Curse Of The Human Race.

You Must Originate, And You Must Sympathize; Yon Must Possess, At The Same Time, The Habit Of Communicating And The Habit Of Listening. The Union Is Rather Rare, But Irresistible.

Taste, When Once Obtained, May Be Said To Be No Acquiring Faculty, And Must Remain Stationary; But Knowledge Is Of Perpetual Growth And Has Infinite Demands. Taste, Like An Artificial Canal, Winds Through A Beautiful Country, But Its Borders Are Confined And Its Term Is Limited. Knowledge Navigates The Ocean, And Is Perpetually On Voyages Of Discovery.

Expediency Is A Law Of Nature. The Camel Is A Wonderful Animal, But The Desert Made The Camel.

All Must Respect Those Who Respect Themselves.

The Legacy Of Heroes Is The Memory Of A Great Name And The Inheritance Of A Great Example.

Life Is To Short To Be Small.

All Paradise Opens! Let Me Die Eating Ortolans To The Sound Of Soft Music!

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.

One Should Conquer The World, Not To Enthrone A Man, But An Idea; For Ideas Exist Forever.

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The Sweet Simplicity Of The Three Percents.

Be Thine Own Privy Counsellor.

She Is An Excellent Creature, But She Can Never Remember Which Came First, The Greeks Or The Romans.

Beware Of Endeavoring To Become A Great Man In A Hurry. One Such Attempt In Ten Thousand May Succeed. These Are Fearful Odds.

The Art Of Governing Mankind By Deceiving Them.

Despair Is The Conclusion Of Fools.

We Are Not Creatures Of Circumstance; We Are Creators Of Circumstance.

I Have Lived Long Enough To Know That The Evening Glow Of Love Has Its Own Riches And Splendour.

Like All Great Travellers, I Have Seen More Than I Remember, And Remember More Than I Have Seen.

Everything In This World Depends Upon Will.

I Have Begun Several Times Many Things, And I Have Often Succeeded At Last.

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.

Adventures Are To The Adventurous.

The Fruit Of My Tree Of Knowledge Is Plucked, And It Is This: “adventures Are To The Adventurous.”

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.

There Is No Act Of Treachery Or Meanness Of Which A Political Party Is Not Capable; For In Politics There Is No Honour.

Modern Science Has Vindicated The Natural Equality Of Man.

He Who Gains Time Gains Everything.

Time Management

Man Is Only Truly Great When He Acts From The Passions; Never Irresistible But When He Appeals To The Imagination.

Amusement To An Observing Mind Is Study.

I Am Bound To Furnish My Antagonists With Arguments, But Not With Comprehension.

Colonies Do Not Cease To Be Colonies Because They Are Independent.

Those Authors Who Appear Sometimes To Forget They Are Writers, And Remember They Are Men, Will Be Our Favorites.

Upon The Education Of The People Of This Country The Fate Of This Country Depends.

London; A Nation, Not A City.

We Moralize Among Ruins.

We Have Legalized Confiscation, Consecrated Sacrilege, And Condoned High Treason.

Luck Is What A Capricious Man Believes In.

How Fair Is A Garden Amid The Toils And Passions Of Existence.

What Are The Most Brilliant Of Our Chymical Discoveries Compared With The Invention Of Fire And The Metals?

The Governments Of The Present Day Have To Deal Not Merely With Other Governments, With Emperors, Kings And Ministers, But Also With The Secret Societies Which Have Everywhere Their Unscrupulous Agents, And Can At The Last Moment Upset All The Governments' Plans.

World Government

Ah, Ireland... That Damnable, Delightful Country, Where Everything That Is Right Is The Opposite Of What It Ought To Be.

Desperation Is Sometimes As Powerful An Inspirer As Genius.

Nature, Like Man, Sometimes Weeps From Gladness.

No One But An Adventurous Traveler Can Know The Luxury Of Sleep.

The Right Honourable Gentleman Caught The Whigs Bathing, And Walked Away With Their Clothes. He Has Left Them In The Full Enjoyment Of Their Liberal Positions, And He Is Himself A Strict Conservative Of Their Garments.

There Is No Index Of Character So Sure As The Voice.

More Pernicious Nonsense Was Never Devised By Man Than Treaties Of Commerce.

I Do Not Like Giving Advice: It Is Incurring An Unnecessary Responsibility.

Trust Not Overmuch To The Blessed Magdalen; Learn To Protect Yourself.

Protect Yourself

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.

Man Is Made To Create, From The Poet To The Potter.

Customs May Not Be As Wise As Laws, But They Are Always More Popular.

Sir, Very Few People Reach Posterity. Who Amongst Us May Arrive At That Destination I Presume Not To Vaticinate. Posterity Is A Most Limited Assembly. Those Gentlemen Who Reach Posterity Are Not Much More Numerous Than The Planets.

Nature Is More Powerful Than Education; Time Will Develop Everything.

There Is No Greater Sin Than To Be Trop Prononce.

Nationality Is The Miracle Of Political Independence; Race Is The Principle Of Physical Analogy.

The Age Does Not Believe In Great Men, Because It Does Not Possess Any.

William Gladstone Has Not A Single Redeeming Defect.

Mr Speaker, I Withdraw My Statement That Half The Cabinet Are Asses - Half The Cabinet Are Not Asses.

Life Is Not Dated Merely By Years. Events Are Sometimes The Best Calendars.

Eloquence Is The Child Of Knowledge.

If Confidence Is A Plant Of Slow Growth, Credit Is One Which Matures Much More Slowly.

In All Church Discussions We Are Apt To Forget The Second Testament Is Avowedly Only A Supplement. Jesus Came To Complete The Law And The Prophets. Christianity Is Completed Judaism, Or It Is Nothing. Christianity Is Incomprehensible Without Judaism, As Judaism Is Incomplete Without Christianity.

I Believe That, Without Party, Parliamentary Government Is Impossible.

Turtle Makes All Men Equal.

What We Call Public Opinion Is Generally Public Sentiment.

It Is Knowledge That Influences And Equalizes The Social Condition Of Man; That Gives To All, However Different Their Political Position, Passions Which Are In Common, And Enjoyments Which Are Universal.

Women Carry A Beautiful Hand With Them To The Grave, When A Beautiful Face Has Long Ago Vanished.

Perseverance And Tact Are The Two Great Qualities Most Valuable For All Those Who Would Climb, But Especially For Those Who Have To Step Out Of The Crowd.

The Practice Of Politics In The East May Be Defined By One Word: Dissimulation.

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.

"as For That," Said Waldenshare, "sensible Men Are All Of The Same Religion." "pray, What Is That?" Inquired The Prince. "sensible Men Never Tell."

Posterity Will Do Justice To That Unprincipled Maniac Gladstone - Extraordinary Mixture Of Envy, Vindictiveness, Hypocrisy And Superstition; And With One Commanding Characteristic - Whether Prime Minister Or Leader Of The Opposition, Whether Preaching, Praying, Speechifying Or Scribbling - Never A Gentleman.

A Parsimony Of Words Prodigal Of Sense.

No Government Can Be Long Secure Without A Formidable Opposition. It Reduces Their Supporters To That Tractable Number Which Can Be Managed By The Joint Influences Of Fruition And Hope. It Offers Vengeance To The Discontented, And Distinction To The Ambitious; And Employs The Energies Of Aspiring Spirits, Who Otherwise May Prove Traitors In A Division Or Assassins In A Debate.

I Feel A Very Unusual Sensation - If It Is Not Indigestion, I Think It Must Be Gratitude.

The Press Is Not Only Free, It Is Powerful. That Power Is Ours. It Is The Proudest That Man Can Enjoy.

Departure Should Be Sudden.

He Thinks Posterity Is A Pack-horse, Always Ready To Be Loaded.

There Are Few Positions Less Inspiriting Than Those Of A Discomfited Party.

There Is No Gambling Like Politics. Nothing In Which The Power Of Circumstance Is More Evident.

But What Minutes! Count Them By Sensation, And Not By Calendars, And Each Moment Is A Day.

The World Is Governed By Very Different Personages From What Is Imagined By Those Who Are Not Behind The Scenes.

World Government

Nothing In Life Is More Remarkable Than The Unnecessary Anxiety Which We Endure, And Generally Create Ourselves.

War Is Never A Solution; It Is An Aggravation.

London Is A Roost For Every Bird.

Moderation Has Been Called A Virtue To Limit The Ambition Of Great Men, And To Console Undistinguished People For Their Want Of Fortune And Their Lack Of Merit.

All Is Race - There Is No Other Truth.

There Is No Gambling Like Politics.

It Is Well-known What A Middleman Is: He Is A Man Who Bamboozles One Party And Plunders The Other.

When A Man Fell Into His Anecdotage It Was A Sign For Him To Retire From The World.

The Fool Wonders, The Wise Man Asks.

This Is To Be Observed Of The Bishop Of London, That, Though Apparently Of A Spirit Somewhat Austere, There Is In His Idiosyncrasy A Strange Fund Of Enthusiasm, A Quality Which Ought Never To Be Possessed By An Archbishop Of Canterbury, Or A Prime Minister Of England. The Bishop Of London Sympathies With Everything That Is Earnest; But What Is Earnest Is Not Always True; On The Contrary Error Is Often More Earnest Than Truth.

It Is A Great Mistake To Suppose That Bribery And Corruption, Although They May Be Very Convenient For Gratifying The Ambition Or The Vanity Of Individuals, Have Any Great Effect Upon The Fortunes Or The Power Of Parties. And It Is A Great Mistake To Suppose That Bribery And Corruption Are Means By Which Power Can Either Be Ob-tained Or Retained.

There Can Be No Economy Where There Is No Efficiency.

The Noble Lord (stanley) Was The Prince Rupert To The Parliamentary Army--his Valour Did Not Always Serve His Own Cause.

Life Is Too Short To Be Little.

Great Services Are Not Canceled By One Act Or By One Single Error.

Assassination Has Never Changed The History Of The World.

It Is The Fashion To Style The Present Moment An Extraordinary Crisis.

As For Our Majority... One Is Enough.

England Does Not Love Coalitions.

I Have Brought Myself, By Long Meditation, To The Conviction That A Human Being With A Settled Purpose Must Accomplish It, And That Nothing Can Resist A Will Which Will Stake Even Existence Upon Its Fulfillment.

Propriety Of Manners, And Consideration For Others, Are The Two Main Characteristics Of A Gentleman.

To Tax The Community For The Advantage Of A Class Is Not Protection: It Is Plunder.

The Depositary Of Power Is Always Unpopular.

We Are Indeed A Nation Of Shopkeepers.

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.

Teach A Man To Fish

The Continent Will Not Suffer England To Be The Workshop Of The World.

The Athanasian Creed Is The Most Splendid Ecclesiastical Lyric Ever Poured Forth By The Genius Of Man.

The Enterprise Of America Precedes That Of Europe, As The Industry Of England Precedes That Of The Rest Of Europe.

Power Has Only One Duty - To Secure The Social Welfare Of The People.

Welfare Programs

All Power Is A Trust, That We Are Accountable For Its Exercise.

In Politics, Nothing Is Contemptible.

Age Is Frequently Beautiful, Wisdom Appearing Like An Aftermath.

The Most Dangerous Strategy Is To Jump A Chasm In Two Leaps.

The More Extensive A Man's Knowledge Of What Has Been Done, The Greater Will Be His Power Of Knowing What To Do.

What Appear To Be Calamities Are Often The Sources Of Fortune.

A Precedent Embalms A Principle.

I Say That Justice Is Truth In Action.

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.

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