"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them."

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

"The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world."

"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty."

"In politics nothing is contemptible."

"No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married."

"Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions."

"Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful."

"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes."

"I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude."

"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy."

"There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice."

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

"Genius, when young, is divine."

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

"The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation."

"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."

"What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth."

"Damn your principles! Stick to your party."

"Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret."

"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being."

"We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets."

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

"Great countries are those that produce great people."

"In politics, nothing is contemptible."

"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions."

"A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both."

"The secret to success is constancy of purpose."

"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."

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

"I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me."

"The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind."

"Without tact you can learn nothing."

"Luck is what a capricious man believes in."

"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."

"Worry is a god invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite and turns the hair gray."

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

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

"Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you."

"There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart."

"We cannot learn men from books."

"Ignorance never settles a question."

"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble."

"The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments."

"Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation."

"Success is the child of audacity."

"King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner."

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

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

"There is no index of character so sure as the voice."