Benjamin Disraeli

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

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.

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

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

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.

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.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

A precedent embalms a principle.