Benjamin Disraeli
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.Collection: Atheist
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.Collection: Inspirational
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.Collection: Government
The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.Collection: Country
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.Collection: Education
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.Collection: Inspirational
The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.Collection: Christian
Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.Collection: Attention
Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses.Collection: Half
Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.Collection: Islands
A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.Collection: Friends
Amusement to an observing mind is study.Collection: Mind
Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.Collection: Perseverance
In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.Collection: Jesus
Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.Collection: Doubt
You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.Collection: Political
A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.Collection: Sarcastic
A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.Collection: Believe
Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.Collection: Religion
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.Collection: Order
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.Collection: Men
It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.Collection: Men
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.Collection: Mother
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.Collection: Powerful
All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!Collection: Sound
It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or the vanity of individuals, have any great effect upon the fortunes or the power of parties. And it is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption are means by which power can either be ob-tained or retained.Collection: Mistake
Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.Collection: Change
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.Collection: Inspirational
Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.Collection: Beautiful
When I want to read a novel, I write one.Collection: Inspiration
I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.Collection: Grew
Duty cannot exist without faithCollection: Duty
I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.Collection: Success
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.Collection: Sister
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.Collection: Philosophy
One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.Collection: Men
You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.Collection: Art
The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”Collection: Adventure
With words we govern men.Collection: Men
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.Collection: Motivational
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.Collection: Law
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.Collection: Inspiring
The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.Collection: Character
Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.Collection: Beautiful
A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.Collection: Greatness