Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

London is a roost for every bird.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

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.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Never complain and never explain.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Never take anything for granted.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

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.

Travel teaches toleration.

Justice is truth in action.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.