Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Great services are not cancelled by one act or by one single error.
Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
London is a roost for every bird.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Chance is Constance.
The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Every woman should marry - and no man.
The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
He has not a single redeeming defect.
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, but they are incidents to a free and constitution country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
There is no education like adversity.
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
The English nation is never as great as in adversity.
A precedent embalms a principle.
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
Worry is a good, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
Luck is what a capricious man believes in.
Travel teaches toleration.
We are all born for love...It is the principle of existence and its only end.
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
No man is regular in his attendance at the house of commons until he is married.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
Ignorance never settles a question.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Without tact you can learn nothing.
Man is not the creature of circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Departure should be sudden.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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