It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Silence is the mother of truth.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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.
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
