Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

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

"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."

"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action."

"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."

"Fear makes us feel our humanity."

"As for our majority... one is enough."

"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."

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

"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best."

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

"Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy."

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

"A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning."

"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning."

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

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

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

"Never complain and never explain."

"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour."

"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."

"Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People."

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

"Where knowledge ends, religion begins."

"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."

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."

"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 different planets. The rich and the poor."

"Never take anything for granted."

"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."

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

"Silence is the mother of truth."

"Justice is truth in action."

"War is never a solution; it is an aggravation."

"Man is only great when he acts from passion."

"There is no education like adversity."

"Without tact you can learn nothing."

"Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness."

"Travel teaches toleration."