We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
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.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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.
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.