 Justice is truth in action. |
| 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. |
| Man is only great when he acts from passion. |
| Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. |
| The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. |
| There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. |
| The fool wonders, the wise man asks. |
| 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. |
| There can be economy only where there is efficiency. |
| An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children. |
| As for our majority... one is enough. |
| What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. |
| Without tact you can learn nothing. |
| Change is inevitable. Change is constant. |
| Youth is the trustee of prosperity. |
| I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget. |
| Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. Topics: Education |
| Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. |
| A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy. |
| Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. |
