It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Travel teaches toleration.
When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.
Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.
The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.
Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.
It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
We make our own fortune and call it destiny.
The indulgence in grief is a blunder.
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
In politics experiments means revolutions.
There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse
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