Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
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.
No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.
Every man should marry - and no woman
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.
We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.
Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.
Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.
Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.
I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.
I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.
Finality is not the language of politics.
He who gains time gains everything.
For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret
Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.