Benjamin Disraeli

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.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Something will turn up.

Little things affect little minds.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

London is a roost for every bird.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

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.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

Man is not the creature of circumstances Circumstances are the creatures of men.