The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civi-lizers of man.
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.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
Justice is truth in action.~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851
I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
Luck is what a capricious man believes in.
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of diff...
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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.