"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."

"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."

"More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce."

"Almost everything that is great has been done by youth."

"Justice is truth in action."

"Duty cannot exist without faith."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy."

"A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."

"His Christianity was muscular."

"We make our fortunes and we call them fate."

"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."

"The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children."

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune."

"The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age."

"Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art."

"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius."

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

"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."

"In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable."

"Finality is not the language of politics."

"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."

"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 modern Babylon."

"When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world."

"For life in general there is but one decree: youth is a blunder manhood a struggle old age a regret."

"Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."

"Everything comes if a man will only wait."

"Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."

"The English nation is never so great as in adversity."

"Most people die with their music still locked up inside them."

"Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others."

"Never complain and never explain."

"Something will turn up."

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

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

"The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning."

"Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe."

"An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children."

"The canter is a cure for every evil."

"Never take anything for granted."

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

"That fatal drollery called a representative government."

"He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong."

"Real politics are the possession and distribution of power."