Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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.
In politics nothing is contemptible.
I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
It is easier to be critical than correct.
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
