The sweet simplicity of the three percents..

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

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

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You….

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory..

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers..

All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise..

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children..

I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up..

We make our own fortune and call it destiny..

Difficulties melt away under tact..

Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if so….

A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience..

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

Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me..

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect..

There is no index of character so sure as the voice..

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand ….

The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without ….

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house..

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 Jeru….