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In politics nothing is contemptible.
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Never complain and never explain.
We cannot learn men from books.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.