“A canter is the cure for all evil.”

“The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.”

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

“Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”

“I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?”

“My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ”

“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”

“Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.”

“But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.”

“As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.”

“Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.”

“Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”

“Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.”

“Life is too short to be little.”

“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 or the prejudices of the few.”

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

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

“Ignorance never settles a question.”

“The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.”

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

“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.”

“Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours”

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

“What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history”

“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”

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

“To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

“Little things affect little minds”

“Man is only great when he acts from passion.”

“The canter is a cure for every evil.”

“What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.”

“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.”

“Justice is truth in action.”

“Success is the child of audacity.”

“If Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fished him out again, that would be a calamity. ”

“You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.”

“Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation”

“There is no education like adversity.”

“Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life. ”

“Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”

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

“In politics, nothing is contemptible.”

“It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.”

“The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”

“What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.”

“Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.”

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

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

“Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.”

“An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.”