History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

Un pesimista ve la dificultad en cada oportunidad; un optimista ve una oportunidad en cada dificultad

It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large.

You leave out God, and you substitute the devil.

In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.