Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

Private credit is wealth public honor is security the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight strip him of his plumage and you fix him to the earth.

Guilt alone like brain sick frenzy in its feverish mood fills the light air with visionary terrors and shapeless forms of fear.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

Do the impossible, see the invisible.

There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level.

I remember watching 'I Love Lucy' with my little brother. We were obsessed with 'I Love Lucy.' And I just remember thinking, 'I want to do that.' I love old comedic actresses - Madeline Kahn, Lucille Ball.

People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention.

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.