Benjamin Disraeli

“Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.”

“There is no gambling like politics.”

“Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.”

“Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.”

“The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.”

“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.”

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”

“The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.”

“Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.”

“A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.”

“There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.”

“I say that justice is truth in action.”

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”

“What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.”