Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

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.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.