In politics, nothing is contemptible.
All my successes have been built on my failures.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
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.
Having the courage to live within one’s means is respectability.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.
Nature is stronger than education.
Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.
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.
A man’s fate is his own temper.
It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.
You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.
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.
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.
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.