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If A Man Be Gloomy Let Him Keep To Himself. No One Has The Right To Go Croaking About Society, Or What Is Worse, Looking As If He Stifled Grief.

Governments Do Not Govern, But Merely Control The Machinery Of Government, Being Themselves Controlled By The Hidden Hand.

Teach Us That Wealth Is Not Elegance, That Profusion Is Not Magnificence, That Splendor Is Not Beauty.

Next To Knowing When To Seize An Opportunity, The Most Important Thing In Life Is To Know When To Forego An Advantage.

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.

All Of Us Encounter, At Least Once In Our Life, Some Individual Who Utters Words That Make Us Think Forever. There Are Men Whose Phrases Are Oracles; Who Condense In One Sentence The Secrets Of Life; Who Blurt Out An Aphorism That Forms A Character Or Illustrates An Existence.

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

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

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.

There Is No Gambling Like Politics.

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.

Nurture Your Minds With Great Thoughts. To Believe In The Heroic Makes Heroes.

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

Success Is The Child Of Audacity.

The Very Phrase 'foreign Affairs' Makes An Englishman Convinced That I Am About To Treat Of Subjects With Which He Has No Concern.

Characters Do Not Change. Opinions Alter, But Characters Are Only Developed.

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

As For Our Majority... One Is Enough.

Whenever You See A Man Who Is Successful In Society, Try To Discover What Makes Him Pleasing, And If Possible Adopt His System.

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

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

When Men Are Pure, Laws Are Useless; When Men Are Corrupt, Laws Are Broken.

He Who Anticipates His Century Is Generally Persecuted When Living, And Always Pilfered When Dead.

Sweet Is The Voice Of A Sister In The Season Of Sorrow.

A Conservative Government Is An Organized Hypocrisy.

In The Study Of The Fine Arts, They Mutually Assist Each Other.

That Doctrine Of Peace At Any Price Has Done More Mischief Than Any I Can Well Recall That Have Been Afloat In This Country. It Has Occasioned More Wars Than Any Of The Most Ruthless Conquerors. It Has Disturbed And Nearly Destroyed That Political Equilibrium So Necessary To The Liberties And The Welfare Of The World.

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

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

Had It Not Been For You, I Should Have Remained What I Was When We First Met, A Prejudiced, Narrow-minded Being, With Contracted Sympathies And False Knowledge, Wasting My Life On Obsolete Trifles, And Utterly Insensible To The Privilege Of Living In This Wondrous Age Of Change And Progress.

The Character Of A Woman Rapidly Develops After Marriage, And Sometimes Seems To Change, When In Fact It Is Only Complete.

All Must Respect Those Who Respect Themselves.

Everything In This World Depends Upon Will.

London; A Nation, Not A City.

The Characteristic Of The Present Age Is Craving Credulity.

Characteristics

One Secret Of Success In Life Is For A Man To Be Ready For His Opportunity When It Comes.

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

You Have Proved It Is A Very Moral Habit.

Time Is Precious, But Truth Is More Precious Than Time.

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

Travel Teaches Toleration.

If You Don't Believe In Magic, Then You Can't Believe In Reality.

What Is Earnest Is Not Always True; On The Contrary Error Is Often More Earnest Than Truth.

Almost Everything That Is Great Has Been Done By Youth.

Youth Is The Trustee Of Prosperity.

Eloquence Is The Child Of Knowledge.

I Pride Myself In Recognizing And Upholding Ability In Every Party And Wherever I Meet It.

Let The Fear Of A Danger Be A Spur To Prevent It; He That Fears Not, Gives Advantage To The Danger.

All Is Race; There Is No Other Truth ,and Every Race Must Fall Which Carelessly Suffers Its Blood To Become Mixed.

Nothing Can Withstand The Power Of The Human Will If It Is Willing To Stake Its Very Existence To The Extent Of Its Purpose.

"sorry" Only Counts For That Which It Cannot Alter.

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

All Is Mystery; But He Is A Slave Who Will Not Struggle To Penetrate The Dark Veil.

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.

The Palace Is Not Safe When The Cottage Is Not Happy.

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

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

The Jews Are A Nervous People. Nineteen Centuries Of Christian Love Have Taken A Toll.

The Wisdom Of The Wise And The Experience Of The Ages Are Perpetuated By Quotations.

Gentl, I Am A Party Man. I Believe That, Without Party, Parliamentary Government Is Impossible. I Look Upon Parliamentary Government As The Noblest Government In The World, And Certainly The One Most Suited To England.

The View Of Jerusalem Is The History Of The World; It Is More, It Is The History Of Earth And Of Heaven.

King Louis Philippe Once Said To Me That He Attributed The Great Success Of The British Nation In Political Life To Their Talking Politics After Dinner.

There Is No Waste Of Time Like Making Excuses.

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

Popular Privileges Are Consistent With A State Of Society In Which There Is Great Inequality Of Position. Democratic Rights, On The Contrary, Demand That There Should Be Equality Of Condition As The Fundamental Basis Of The Society They Regulate.

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

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

Gentlemen, The Tory Party, Unless It Is A National Party, Is Nothing.

Happiness Is Only To Be Found In A Recurrence To The Principles Of Human Nature; And These Will Prompt Very Simple Measures.

There Are Few Young Women In Existence Who Have Not The Power Of Fascinating, If They Choose To Exert It.

Where Knowledge Ends, Religion Begins.

There Can Be Economy Only Where There Is Efficiency.

Those Who Cannot Themselves Observe Can At Least Acquire The Observation Of Others.

When I Want To Read A Novel, I Write One.

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.

In Politics, Nothing Is Contemptible.

The World Is Ruled By Other People, Than People Believe To Know.

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

Beauty Can Inspire Miracles.

What We Anticipate Seldom Occurs; What We Least Expect Generally Happens.

The Essence Of Education Is The Education Of The Body.

Terror Has Its Inspiration, As Well As Competition.

Moderation Is The Center Wherein All Philosophies, Both Human And Divine, Meet.

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

A Precedent Embalms A Principle.

Every Production Of Genius Must Be The Production Of Enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm For Life

Life Is Too Short To Be Little.

To Supervise People, You Must Either Surpass Them In Their Accomplishments Or Despise Them.

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

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.

The Fool Wonders, The Wise Man Asks.

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.

How Much Easier It Is To Be Critical Than To Be Correct.

Positive Thinking

Never Argue. In Society Nothing Must Be; Give Only Results. If Any Person Differs From You, Bow, And Turn The Conversation.

Nature Has Given Us Two Ears But Only One Mouth.

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

Without Tact You Can Learn Nothing.

It Has Been Said That The People Of This Country Are Deeply Interested In The Humanitarian And Philanthropic Considerations Involved In [the Eastern Question]. All Must Appreciate Such Feelings. But I Am Mistaken If There Be Not A Yet Deeper Sentiment On The Part Of The People Of This Country, One With Which I Cannot Doubt Your Lordships Will Ever Sympathise, And That Is - The Determination To Maintain The Empire Of England.

It Shows You Exactly How A Star Is Formed; Nothing Else Can Be So Pretty! A Cluster Of Vapor, The Cream Of The Milky Way, A Sort Of Celestial Cheese, Churned Into Light.

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

You Never Observe A Great Intellectual Movement In Europe In Which The Jews Do Not Greatly Participate. The First Jesuits Were Jews.

We Live In Age Of Prudence. The Leaders Of The People Now Generally Follow.

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

I Think That An Author Who Speaks About His Own Books Is Almost As Bad As A Mother Who Talks About Her Own Children.

Jews Show So Near An Affinity To You... Where Is Your Christianity If You Do Not Believe In Their Judaism?

Real Politics Are The Possession And Distribution Of Power.

Distribution Of Power

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

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

My Idea Of An Agreeable Person Is A Person Who Agrees With Me.

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 British People, Being Subject To Fogs, Require Grave Statesmen.

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.

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.

Why Should One Say That The Machine Does Not Live? It Breathes, For Its Breath Forms The Atmosphere Of Some Towns.

Talk To A Man About Himself And He Will Listen For Hours.

At Present The Peace Of The World Has Been Preserved, Not By Statesmen, But By Capitalists.

We Are Indeed A Nation Of Shopkeepers.

Sir, I Shall Not Defeat You - I Shall Transcend You.

I Say That Justice Is Truth In Action.

There Are Few Faces That Can Afford To Smile: A Smile Is Sometimes Bewitching, In General Vapid, Often A Contortion.

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

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.

We Live In An Age When To Be Young And To Be Indifferent Can Be No Longer Synonymous. We Must Prepare For The Coming Hour. The Claims Of The Future Are Represented By Suffering Millions; And The Youth Of A Nation Are The Trustees Of Posterity.

No Man Is Regular In His Attendance At The House Of Commons Until He Is Married.

Most People Die With Their Music Still Locked Up Inside Them.

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

The World Is Governed By Personalities Very Different To What People That Cannot See Further Than Their Eyes, Believe

The Feeling Of Satiety, Almost Inseparable From Large Possessions, Is A Surer Cause Of Misery Than Ungratified Desires.

The Youth Of A Nation Are The Trustees Of Posterity.

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

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

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

The Gondola Of London [a Hansom].

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.

Christianity Is Completed Judaism Or It Is Nothing.

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.

The Difference Between A Misfortune And A Calamity Is This: If Gladstone Fell Into The Thames, It Would Be A Misfortune. But If Someone Dragged Him Out Again, That Would Be A Calamity.

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

England Is A Domestic Country. Here The Home Is Revered And The Hearth Sacred. The Nation Is Represented By A Family,--the Royal Family,--and If That Family Is Educated With A Sense Of Responsibility And A Sentiment Of Public Duty, It Is Difficult To Exaggerate The Salutary Influence It May Exercise Over A Nation.

The Disappointment Of Manhood Succeeds The Delusion Of Youth.

The Eyes Of The Social Herd, Who Always Observe Little Things, And Generally Form From Them Their Opinions Of Great Affairs.

We Moralize Among Ruins.

There Is No Wisdom Like Frankness.

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.

The Art Of Conversation Is To Be Prompt Without Being Stubborn, To Refute Without Argument, And To Clothe Great Matters In A Motley Garb.

I Have Climbed To The Top Of The Greasy Pole!

We Can Know Nothing Of Humankind Without Knowing Something Of Ourselves. Self-knowledge Is The Property Of Those People Whose Passions Have Their Full Play, But Who Ponder Over Their Results.

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

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.

The Indulgence In Grief Is A Blunder.

Man Is A Being Born To Believe. And If No Church Comes Forward With Its Title-deeds Of Truth To Guide Him, He Will Find Altars And Idols In His Own Heart And His Own Imagination.

A Practical Man Is A Man Who Practices The Errors Of His Forefathers.

Fear Makes Us Feel Our Humanity.

We Make Our Fortunes And We Call Them Fate.

A Sophistical Rhetorician, Inebriated With The Exuberance Of His Own Verbosity, And Gifted With An Egotistical Imagination That Can At All Times Command An Interminable And Inconsistent Series Of Arguments To Malign An Opponent And To Glorify Himself.

The Services In Wartime Are Fit Only For Desperadoes, But In Peace Are Only Fit For Fools.

The Difference Between Talent And Genius Is This: While The Former Usually Develops Some Special Branch Of Our Faculties, The Latter Commands Them All. When The Former Is Combined With Tact, It Is Often More Than A Match For The Latter.

In Politics Experiments Means Revolutions.

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.

London Is A Modern Babylon.

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.

The Question Is This - Is Man An Ape Or An Angel? My Lord, I Am On The Side Of The Angels. I Repudiate With Indignation And Abhorrence These New Fanged Theories.

Modern Science Has Vindicated The Natural Equality Of Man.

The Secret Of Success Is Constancy To Purpose.

Youth Is A Blunder; Manhood A Struggle, Old Age A Regret.

The Press Is Not Only Free, It Is Powerful. That Power Is Ours. It Is The Proudest That Man Can Enjoy. It Was Not Granted By Monarchs, It Was Not Gained For Us By Aristocracies; But It Sprang From The People, And, With An Immortal Instinct, It Has Always Worked For The People.

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

England Does Not Love Coalitions.

Is It What You Call Civilization That Makes England Flourish? Is It The Universal Development Of The Faculties Of Man That Has Rendered An Island, Almost Unknown To The Ancients, The Arbiter Of The World? Clearly Not. It Is The Inhabitants That Have Done This. It Is An Affair Of Race.... All Is Race, There Is No Other Truth.

Be Thine Own Privy Counsellor.

If You're Not Very Clever You Should Be Conciliatory.

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.

There Is Magic In The Memory Of Schoolboy Friendships; It Softens The Heart, And Even Affects The Nervous System Of Those Who Have No Heart.

A Parsimony Of Words Prodigal Of Sense.

Grief Is The Agony Of An Instant. The Indulgence Of Grief The Blunder Of A Life.

I Have Been Ever Of Opinion That Revolutions Are Not To Be Evaded.

Departure Should Be Sudden.

Conservatism Discards Prescription, Shrinks From Principle, Disavows Progress; Having Rejected All Respect For Antiquity, It Offers No Redress For The Present, And Makes No Preparation For The Future.

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

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

Cosmopolitan Critics, Men Who Are The Friends Of Every Country Save Their Own.

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.

The Best Security For Civilization Is The Dwelling, And Upon Properly Appointed And Becoming Dwellings Depends, More Than Anything Else, The Improvement Of Mankind.

Great Men Should Think Of Opportunity And Not Of Time. That Is The Excuse Of Feeble And Puzzled Spirits.

The Greatest Of All Evils Is A Weak Government

Weak Government

The Health Of The People Is Really The Foundation Upon Which All Their Happiness And All Their Powers As A State Depend.

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

An Obedient Wife Commands Her Husband.

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.

Books Are The Curse Of The Human Race.

And It Is A Singular Truth That, Though A Man May Shake Off National Habits, Accent, Manner Of Thinking, Style Of Dress,--though He May Become Perfectly Identified With Another Nation, And Speak Its Language Well, Perhaps Better Than His Own,--yet Never Can He Succeed In Changing His Handwriting To A Foreign Style.

A Very Remarkable People The Zulus: They Defeat Our Generals, They Convert Our Bishops, They Have Settled The Fate Of A Great European Dynasty.

The Magic Of First Love Is Our Ignorance That It Can Ever End.

The Tendency Of An Advanced Civilization Is In Truth Monarchy.

Courage Is Fire, And Bullying Is Smoke.

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

I Suppose, To Use Our National Motto, Something Will Turn Up.

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.

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

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

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