Benjamin Disraeli

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

He who gains time gains everything.

All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.

If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

Man is more powerful than matter.

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

A person's fate is their own temper.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.