When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the...

There is no act of treachery or mean-ness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

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

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

There are three types of lies — lies, damn lies, and statistics.

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

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

,No sabéis quiénes son los críticos? Aquellos que no han tenido éxito en la literatura y en el arte.

Silence is the mother of truth.

The canter is a cure for every evil.

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

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

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

The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties; they always have a...

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

Justice is truth in action.~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Sir, I shall not defeat you – I shall transcend you.

The expected always happens