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

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.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

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.

Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.

If you don’t find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.

He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.

We find our power in the same place as our pain.

I am always struggling in finding time to daily grow in my faith. If you are not in the Word or focusing on Christ, or into prayer, you can’t help but slip at times.

When you’re not finding the fairway, it’s hard to be consistent. [Right now] I’m comfortable and I’m not so comfortable, if that makes sense.

Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.