Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Never complain and never explain.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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.
The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
There is no gambling like politics.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.
In politics nothing is contemptible.