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1. As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
2. Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
3. There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
4. No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
5. We cannot learn men from books.
6. The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
7. Finality is not the language of politics.
8. If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.
9. If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
10. In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
11. Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
12. Man is only great when he acts from passion.
13. I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
14. Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
15. We moralize among ruins.
16. Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
17. Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
18. The very phrase ‘foreign affairs’ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
19. The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
20. The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.