Benjamin Disraeli

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

"Man is made to adore and to obey."

"The greatest elevation of sentiment I have ever experienced."

"I believe that the nature of woman is to be loved, and the nature of man is to love."

"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."

"Self-control is the very essence of liberty."

"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too."

"Wars are such uncertain things."

"A man who has to be convinced to vote is probably not an intelligent man."

"The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow."

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

"Thought is itself a species of execution."

"To love one-self is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

"Great things are effected by powerful means."

"The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is about two billion dollars."

"I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course."

"The nation that embraces literature will never be conquered."

"In a progressive country change is constant."

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."

"No man is content with his own condition."

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

"It has been the great error of our politicians to overlook the happiness of the governed."

"Fame, sir, is the thirst of youth."

"Art is the effort of man to express his feelings."

"A man must have courage to dwell in the wilderness alone."

"Suicide is confession."

"Extreme success is extreme danger."

"The only true fairy tale is the life of a person with integrity."

"What is conservatism but the politics of nostalgia."

"God made the integers, all else is the work of man."