Benjamin Disraeli

“Never complain and never explain.”

“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

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

“Man is only great when he acts from passion.”

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

“Success is the child of audacity.”

“The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.”

“We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.”

“In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.”

“Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.”

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

“Fear makes us feel our humanity.”

“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”

“A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.”

“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”

“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.”

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

“I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.”

“Youth is the trustee of prosperity.”

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

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

“War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.”

“Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”