There is moderation even in excess.

Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.

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

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.