Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.
Be thine own privy counsellor.
Silence often expresses ’more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.
I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.
Party is organized opinion.
Every moment is travel – if understood.
Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.
There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.
Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.
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.
All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!
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.
Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace – but a peace I hope with honour.
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.
Rothschild is the lord and master of the money markerts of the world and virtually lord and master of everything else.
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.
I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.
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.
There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.