Never complain and never explain.

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

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

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

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

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

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

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

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

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

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

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Justice is truth in action.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Never take anything for granted.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

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

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Success is the child of audacity.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

As for our majority... one is enough.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

There is no education like adversity.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

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

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Silence is the mother of truth.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Little things affect little minds.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

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

Travel teaches toleration.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.