Benjamin Disraeli

"The most advanced nations are always those which navigate the most."

"Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be sustained by anything but principle."

"When men are young they are apt to estimate abilities by actual work done, but I have always believed in going a good deal by promise."

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

"The soul rises through successive circles of experience, each one correcting and enlarging the last."

"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."

"Moderation has never yet controlled the indulgence of successive generations."

"The protection of a wise magistrate secures the stability of the throne."

"I have always thought that nothing would do me more good than a little solitude."

"Nations touch at their summits."

"The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm."

"Anxiety is the appropriate emotion to the time we live in."

"As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration—judgment to estimate things at their proper value."

"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do."

"There can be no act of true courage unless you are scared."

"Take the tone of the company you are in."

"Individuality is the aim of political liberty."

"The great object of life is sensation—to feel that we exist."

"A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder."

"You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities."

"Silence is sometimes the severest criticism."

"The pillars of a great state are the morality and wisdom of its people."

"What an extraordinary thing it is to succeed, and yet I am always surprised when I succeed."

"The finest opportunity for thought is when we are all alone."

"Coningsby is a novel of politics; but not a political novel in the vulgar sense."

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

"Nothing is more important than silence."

"I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget."

"The health of a nation is the foundation of their independence."