Benjamin Disraeli

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Success is the child of audacity.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

We cannot learn men from books.

Never complain and never explain.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Finality is not the language of politics.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

There is no gambling like politics.

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

As for our majority... one is enough.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

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.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

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.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.