It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence and its only end.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity...
A University should be a place of light of liberty and of learning.
Seeing much suffering much and studying much are the three pillars of...
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done the greater will...
Where knowledge ends religion begins.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Read no history: nothing but biography for that is life without theory.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more it is the...
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is...
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their...
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of...
Great countries are those that produce great people.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to...
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men and...
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in...
Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember...
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but...
Worry - a God invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek...
Conservatism discards Prescription shrinks from Principle disavows Progress...
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not gives...
Taking a new step uttering a new word is what people fear most.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Duty cannot exist without faith.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to...
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by...
Experience is the child of thought and thought is the child of action.
