[on being named PM] "I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole."
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
To be a great lawyer, I must give up my chance of being a great man.
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Success is the child of audacity.
[on William Gladstone] If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune. And if anyone pulled him out that, I suppose, would be a calamity.