Benjamin Disraeli

"Man belongs to a species and an age; he cannot step beyond them."

"Truth is much too important to be left to the newspapers."

"A leader must be willing to sacrifice for the greater good."

"The greatest punishment for one's mistakes is to become their instrument."

"To live without opinions is to live without conscience."

"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens."

"Everything comes if a man will only wait; time is the greatest medicine of all."

"The secret of success is consistency of purpose."

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

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

"I have always thought that the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

"Read no history; nothing but biography, for that is life without theory."

"We are all born for a purpose, and that purpose is to make the world better."

"The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children."

"Seeing is in very deed believing."

"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."

"A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake."

"The greatest delight of society is the company of clever people."

"Despair is the conclusion of fools."

"There is moderation even in excess."

"Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret."

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

"Knowledge is power only when applied with purpose."

"Art is the great instrument of education."

"A conservative government is an organised hypocrisy."

"When a man is down in the world an honest and retentive memory becomes his best friend."

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

"Every woman should marry, and no man."

"Time is the great physician."

"The true secret of success, of all human enjoyment, is enthusiasm."