Benjamin Disraeli

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

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

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

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

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

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

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

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

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

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