Most people die with their music still locked up inside them..

Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose..

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret..

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour..

Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, al….

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas..

I say that justice is truth in action..

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..

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must ex….

Duty cannot exist without faith.

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our ad….

Rothschild is the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held th….

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,….

The gondola of London [a hansom]..

The fool wonders, the wise man asks..

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

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

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen..

It is the lot of man to suffer..

London is a roost for every bird..

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet..