Benjamin Disraeli

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

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

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

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

Ignorance never settles a question.

Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

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

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

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.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

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.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

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

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.