Man is not the creature of circumstances Circumstances are the creatures of men.
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension.
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.
The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Great countries are those that produce great people.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.