“To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.”

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

We moralize among ruins.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

London is a roost for every bird.

Never complain and never explain.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.