Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Finality is not the language of politics.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Justice is truth in action.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

As for our majority... one is enough.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.