Departure should be sudden.
He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.
Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.
Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.
Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.
A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.
Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.
The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”
An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.
Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.
The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart’s blood of its victims.
There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.
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.
We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.
I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.
A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.