Benjamin Disraeli

The canter is a cure for every evil.

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

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

Silence is the mother of truth.

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

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

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

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

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The secret to success is constancy of purpose.

In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.