The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
There is moderation even in excess.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
There is no education like adversity.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.