Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.
I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth.
Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.
A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.
Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous
All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!
No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.
I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.
Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.
There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.
Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.
We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.
Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.
There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.