Without tact you can learn nothing.
The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels.
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
Finality is not the language of politics.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Travel teaches toleration.
London is a roost for every bird.
There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
When I want to read a novel, I write one.
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 passi...
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
As for our majority... one is enough.
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.
The canter is a cure for every evil.