When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: ‘Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.’ That depends, Sir,? said Disraeli, ’whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.
The canter is a cure for every evil.
Justice is truth in action.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.
There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.