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| How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts. | | Uncategorized | |
| However gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity | | Uncategorized | |
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| I feel a very unusual sensation - if it's not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude | | Gratitude | |
| I had to prepare the mind of the country [for Reform], and . . . to educate our party. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man. | | Men and Women | |
| I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. | | Uncategorized | |
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| I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? | | Leadership | |
| I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget. | | Uncategorized | |
| I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. | | Power | |
| I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations. | | Uncategorized | |
| I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar. | | Uncategorized | |
| I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Grief; Society | |
| If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that I suppose would be a calamity. | | Uncategorized | |
| If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change | | Uncategorized | |
| If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory. | | Uncategorized | |
