Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.
The depositary of power is always unpopular.
A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.
Duty cannot exist without faith.
The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.
If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, – the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.
We cannot learn men from books.
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.
Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
That earliest shock in one’s life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.
We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.
Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times.
As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.