Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.
Travel teaches toleration.
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Success is the child of audacity.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
Never take anything for granted.
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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.
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.