The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.

Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.