The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

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

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 Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Never complain and never explain.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

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

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

There is no education like adversity.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

We cannot learn men from books.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

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

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

Never take anything for granted.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

London is a roost for every bird.

Travel teaches toleration.

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 exist.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

There is no gambling like politics.

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

In politics nothing is contemptible.