No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
Nationality is the miracle of political independence race is the principle of physical analogy.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
We cannot learn men from books.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.
He has not a single redeeming defect.
The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.