Benjamin Disraeli

"Belief and hope are the great principles."

"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."

"Every man should work for the glory of his country and not merely for his own gain."

"The human mind is the noblest creation of God."

"Power over another man's will is the highest pleasure."

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, but the kind of man the country produces."

"I have always disliked the world, life, and the human race."

"It is better to travel than to arrive."

"Great men are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted."

"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."

"Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men."

"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to accept the idea that a considerable number of my fellow-creatures live very full and interesting lives without ever hearing of me."

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

"We are all born for a purpose; to discover and fulfill that purpose is the work of a lifetime."

"I have always thought that actions speak louder than words, but not nearly as often."

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is determined to hazard everything to achieve its objective."

"A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords."

"The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity."

"I repeat: we are not in a state of siege; we are in a state of uncertainty."

"Life is too short to be small."

"A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning."

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy poverty."

"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius."

"Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm."

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

"What is the world at its best but a kind of eccentric orderliness?"