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There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse

There is moderation even in excess.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge

An obedient wife commands her husband.

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

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

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

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

A man's fate is his own temper.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

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

Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.

Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

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

Meditation is culture.

Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times.

Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

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

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

The world is governed by personalities very different to what people
that cannot see further than their eyes, believe

Jews show so near an affinity to you ... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

The essence of education is the education of the body.

We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

And then they say one is misanthropical. Hang it! who can help being misanthropical when he finds everybody getting on in life except himself?

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

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

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

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

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

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: "Adventures are to the adventurous."

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

All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.

England is governed not by logic but by parliament.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Information upon points of practical politics.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

Her Majesty is not a subject.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

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

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.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

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

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

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

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

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

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

Party is organized opinion.