Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

The police are the public and the public are the police.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.

Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible.

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

The feelings resembled memories

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

I found strength in what hurt me. And in my family - that's my strength as well. I'm truly grateful to be hurt as many times as I have, because I'm happy!

Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world.

Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business.

Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

I want people to come see my films and enjoy them but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.