Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.
Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.