A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times comm….

Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment..

No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep..

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world..

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information..

Despair is the conclusion of fools..

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

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers..

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them..

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future..

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation..

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations..

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man..

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law..

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

Books are the curse of the human race..

The expected always happens.

Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him..

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb..

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more w….

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