I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. |
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder. |
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. |
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. |
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones. |
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. |
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. |
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools. |
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. |
There is moderation even in excess. |
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. |
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him. |
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth. |
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. |
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both. |
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. |
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. |