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

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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.

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.

That is the physics that all fearless types discover at some point – an appropriate ratcheting up of self-belief and energy when facing negative or even impossible circumstances.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.

God’s plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day.

The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.

What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness.

Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.