The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own..

Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses..

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick..

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy..

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard..

Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement..

Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns..

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools..

I believe absence is a great element of charm..

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune..

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble..

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition..

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did..

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles;….

Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest g….

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything..

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”.

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it..

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it..

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy..

The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world..