We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts.
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Never complain and never explain.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.
We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
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.
Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.
Said Waldershare, 'Sensible men are all of the same religion.' 'And pray what is that' ... 'Sensible men never tell.'
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator.
Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, For you will never go any higher that you think...
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
There are three kinds of lies lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Little things affect little minds.
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.
Success is the child of audacity.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
What we anticipate seldom occurs what we least expected generally happens.
It is well-known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Ignorance never settles a question.
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
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.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
A precedent embalms a principle.
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
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.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few.
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