Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself.

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

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

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people.

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.