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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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.
Travel teaches toleration.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
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.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.