Benjamin Disraeli

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."

"Travel teaches toleration."

"War is never a solution; it is an aggravation."

"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art."

"In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable."

"Justice is truth in action."

"A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."

"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."

"London is a roost for every bird."

"Silence is the mother of truth."

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

"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."

"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."

"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future."

"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune."

"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action."

"Finality is not the language of politics."

"In politics nothing is contemptible."

"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being."

"Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor."

"Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness."

"Never complain and never explain."

"No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married."

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

"Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People."

"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning."

"Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth."

"Success is the child of audacity."

"The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end."

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."

"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes."

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."

"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour."

"There is no education like adversity."

"There is no gambling like politics."

"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."

"We cannot learn men from books."

"Without tact you can learn nothing."

"You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men."

"You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life."