I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Finality is not the language of politics.
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.