“The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.”

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

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

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

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

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

There is moderation even in excess.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.