Benjamin Disraeli

Without tact you can learn nothing.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

There is moderation even in excess.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

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

It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.

Difficulties melt away under tact.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

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

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.