“Every woman should marry ... and no man.”

“Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.”

“I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.”

“He who gains time gains everything.”

“There is no index of character as sure as the voice.”

“Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.”

“Departures should be sudden.”

“When I want to read a good book, I write one.”

“England is governed not by logic but by parliament.”

“Political life must be taken as you find it.”

“There is no act of treachery or mean-ness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour”

“Books are companions even if you don't open them.”

“Justice is truth in action.

“Other men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair; the man of letters may reckon those days as the sweetest of his life”

“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.”

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

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

“I cannot pay attention unless I am attracted," said Egremont.”

“A consistent man believes in destiny; a capricious man in chance.”

“Talk to people about themselves, and they will listen for hours.”

“Life Is Too Short to be Small”

“Change is inevitable. Change is constant.”

“Never apologize, never explain.”

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

“There is no wisdom like frankness.”

“Never explain. Never complain.”

“Political institutions, founded on abstract rights and principles, are mere nullities.”

“In all things we trace the irresistible influence of the individual.”

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

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

“Nothing resists a human will that stakes its very existence upon the achievement of its purpose”

“Power has only one duty--to secure the social welfare of the people.”

“The East is a career.”

“The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.”

“Silence is the mother of truth”

“There are exceptions to all rules, but it seldom answers to follow the advice of an opponent.”

“Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.”

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.”

“Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours”

“The history of Heroes is the history of Youth.”

“It is a holy thing to see a state saved by its youth.”

“Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.”

“We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous.”

“The Lord deals with the nations as the nations deal with the Jews.”

“Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.”

“The English in politics are as the old Hebrews in religion, 'a favored and peculiar people.”

“The wit of conversation consists more in finding it in others, than showing a great deal yourself. He who goes out of your company pleased with his own facetiousness and ingenuity, will the sooner come into it again.”

“Be not sick too late, nor well too soon.”

“There are two ways of being happy — we may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do, the result is the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means.”

“If you are active and prosperous, or young, or in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are wise, you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society.”