Benjamin Disraeli

“Travel teaches toleration.”

“Justice is truth in action.”

“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.”

“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”

“Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.”

“As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.”

“A majority is always better than the best repartee.”

“The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.”

“My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.”

“Change is inevitable. Change is constant.”

“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.”

“There is no education like adversity.”

“Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.”

“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”

“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”

“Duty cannot exist without faith.”

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”

“Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.”

“Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.”

“Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.”

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”

“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.”

“That fatal drollery called a representative government.”

“Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.”