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

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.

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.

Joy is all around me, and I celebrate it all.

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.

Never underestimate what you can accomplish when you believe in yourself. (Unknown)

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of the plants themselves.[Letter to W.H. Harvey]

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house.

The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change.