Benjamin Disraeli

"Time is the great physician."

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"I repeat that in this country the pocket is the nerve of political action."

"A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy."

"Circumstances are beyond the control of man; but his conduct is in his own power."

"The greatest misfortune that can happen to a man is to lose his money."

"We behold around us a world in convulsion."

"There is no index of character so sure as the voice."

"I have scarcely ever known a marketplace established, that was not succeeded by a church."

"Genius is the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time."

"Beware of the man of one book."

"There is no gambling like politics."

"Variety is the mother of enjoyment."

"The depressed and sinful condition of man can be improved by study."

"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants."

"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."

"Fear is faith in reverse."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"The fact is, that the public have an insatiable appetite for beauty."

"Experience is the universal philosopher."

"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct."

"I am myself at heart a gentleman."

"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."

"What is the world but a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

"Knowledge, sir, should be free to all."

"The true duty of an educated man or woman is an obligation to the society in which one lives."

"Relaxation and enjoyment form the sweetest things of life."

"Where can we find greater structural clarity than the buildings of London?"

"Duty cannot exist without faith."