1. “A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.”
2. “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
3. ”Amid the gloom and travail of existence suddenly to behold a beautiful being, and as instantaneously to feel an overwhelming conviction that with that fair form for ever our destiny must be entwined; that there is no more joy than in her joy; no sorrow but when she grieves; that in her sigh of love, in her smile of fondness, hereafter is all bliss; to feel our flaunty ambition fade away like a shriveled gourd before her vision; to feel fame a juggle and posterity a lie; and to be prepared at once, for this great object, to forfeit and fling away all former hopes, ties, schemes, views; to violate in her favor every duty of society; this is a lover, and this is love.”
4. “Amusement to an observing mind is study.”
5. “A person's fate is their own temper.”
6. “A precedent embalms a principle.”
7. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
8. “All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence.”
9. “A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.”
10. “Amusement to an observing mind is study.”
11. "A precedent embalms a principle."
12. "As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."
13. “A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”
14. “Be amusing, never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.”
15. ”But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.”
16. "Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance"
17. “Change is inevitable in a progressive country. Change is constant.”
18. “Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.”
19. “Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”
20. “Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.”
21. ”Fear makes us feel our humanity.”
22. “Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.”
23. “Great countries are those that produce great people.”
24. “Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.”
25. “How much easier to be critical than to be correct.”
26. “If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.”
27. “Ignorance never settles a question.”
28. "I hate definitions."
29. “I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.”
30. “I say that justice is truth in action.”
31. ”It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.”
32. “It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.”
33. “Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.”
34. “Life is too short to be small.”
35. “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
36. “Man is more powerful than matter.”
37. “Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.”
38. “Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.”
39. “My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.”
40. “Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.”
41. “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”
42. “Never complain and never explain.”
43. “Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.”
44. “Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”
45. ”Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.”
46. ”Silence is the mother of truth.”
47. “One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.”
48. “Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”
49. “Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”
50. “Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.”
51. “Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.”
52. “The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.”
53. “The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.”
54. “The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”
55. “The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”
56. “The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.”
57. “The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.”
58. “The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.”
59. “The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels.”
60. ”There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
61. “There is no education like adversity.”
62. “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
63. “The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.”
64. "This shows how much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."
65. “Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
66. “To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.”
67. “Travel teaches toleration.”
68. “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; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws...the rich and the poor.”
69. “We are all born for love...it is the principle existence and its only end.”
70. “What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.”
71. “When I want to read a novel, I write one.”
72. “When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”
73. “Worry -- a God, 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.”
74. “Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.”
