When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

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

Silence is the mother of truth.

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

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

The secret to success is constancy of purpose.

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

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

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

The canter is a cure for every evil.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

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

Justice is truth in action.~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

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

The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties; they always have a resource, they always have the House. People without cares do not require as much food as those whose life entails anxieties. See how long they live!

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

There is no education like adversity.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

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

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension.

The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.

He has not a single redeeming defect.

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

His Christianity was muscular.

Man is not the creature of circumstances Circumstances are the creatures of men.

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

London is a roost for every bird.

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Little things affect little minds.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Something will turn up.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

A precedent embalms a principle.

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

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels.

Ignorance never settles a question.

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

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civi-lizers of man.

We are all born for love it is the principle of existence and its only end.

For life in general there is but one decree: youth is a blunder manhood a struggle old age a regret.

London is a roost for every bird.

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

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

Luck is what a capricious man believes in.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Every woman should marry - and no man.

Departure should be sudden.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

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

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Departure should be sudden.

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party!

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.

I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.

A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

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

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion I think it must be gratitude.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves.

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

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

Travel teaches toleration.

Time is precious but truth is more precious than time.

Worry is 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.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.