Quotes from Benjamin

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Finality is not the language of politics.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

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.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

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.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.

There is no gambling like politics.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

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.