"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own"
"The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy"
"The more you are talked about the less powerful you are"
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics"
"The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity"
"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble"
"The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation"
"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours"
"The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern"
"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation"
"Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness"
"Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others"
"Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools"
"No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married"
"Never complain and never explain"
"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor"
"My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles"
"You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life"
"You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men"
"To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder"
"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them"
"Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds"
"Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones"
"Assassination has never changed the history of the world"
"As for our majority... one is enough"
"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information"
"An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children"
"Almost everything that is great has been done by youth"
"Adventures are to the adventurous"
"The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity"
"It is easier to be critical than correct"
"Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life"
"King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner"
"Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent"
"A precedent embalms a principle"
"A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both"
"A majority is always better than the best repartee"
"Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful"
"Duty cannot exist without faith"
"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment"
"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded"
"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best"
"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius"
"Despair is the conclusion of fools"
"Damn your principles! Stick to your party"
"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke"
"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"
"When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world"
"What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens"
"What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth"
