Benjamin Disraeli

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”

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

“A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.”

“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.”

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

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

“Fear makes us feel our humanity.”

“Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”

“Without tact you can learn nothing.”

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

“Assassination has never changed the history of the world.”

“Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.”

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

“Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.”

“Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”

“As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.”

“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.”

“Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.”

“Change is inevitable. Change is constant.”

“A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.”