A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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.
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Duty cannot exist without faith.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Finality is not the language of politics.
Great countries are those that produce great people.
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.