I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension.
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.
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
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.
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
I say that justice is truth in action.
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Justice is truth in action.~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851