I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
In politics nothing is contemptible.
Never take anything for granted.
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
There is no gambling like politics.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
There is no index of character as sure as the voice.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
We cannot learn men from books.
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.
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.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.