44 quotes
British statesman (1804–1881)
“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.”
"A precedent embalms a principle."
on Philosophy
"Justice is truth in action.~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851"
on Truth
"For life in general there is but one decree: youth is a blunder manhood a struggle old age a regret."
on Life
"We are all born for love it is the principle of existence and its only end."
on Love
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."
on Wisdom
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."
"Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves."
on Anxiety
"Man is not the creature of circumstances Circumstances are the creatures of men."
"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."
"No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition."
on Politics
"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it."
on Writing
"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."
"The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age."
on Learning
"Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."
on Courage
"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."
"Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm."
on Creativity
"We make our fortunes and we call them fate."
"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."
on Friendship
"A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic."
on Relationships
"Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman."
