It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, ”God speed her!” She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; if you are depressed, it will cheer you; if you are excited, it will calm you.

This, if I understand it, is one of those golden moments of our history, one of those opportunities which may come and may go, but which rarely return.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.

I would tell them of my own intention to keep my own counsel . . . and I will venture to recommend them, as an old Parliamentary hand, to do the same.

This is the negation of God erected into a system of government.

The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in...

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one,...

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is...

He is the purest figure in history. [About George Washington]

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.