"Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."

"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."

"Fear makes us feel our humanity."

"Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit."

"Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard."

"I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget."

"A majority is always better than the best repartee."

"Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed."

"Man is only great when he acts from passion."

"The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation."

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."

"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."

"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."

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

"The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans."

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

"A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance."

"Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth."

"Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages."

"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."

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

"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"

"When I want to read a novel, I write one."

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

"All is mystery, but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil."

"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few."

"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour."

"We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers."

"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."

"There is no gambling like politics."

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

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

"No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition."

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

"Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."

"As for our majority... one is enough."

"I say that justice is truth in action."

"There is moderation even in excess."

"Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing."

"The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity."

"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."

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

"Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error."

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

"Silence is the mother of truth."

"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."

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

"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."

"Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon."