Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
Genius, when young, is divine.
Great countries are those that produce great people.
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
London is a roost for every bird.
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.