Benjamin Disraeli

With words we govern men.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

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.

The world is a wheel, and it is always turning.

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

Ignorance never settles a question.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

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

The more extensive your acquaintance with the works of those who have excelled, the more extensive will be your powers of invention; and the more extensive your powers of invention, the more original will be your thoughts.

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

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

The greatest pains to human nature are the pains of patience.

I have never been bored in my life, though I have often been boring.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, and which had, up to this moment, been in an obscure stable, suddenly burst upon the field, and, rushing past the grandstand, was hailed a winner.

He was a man of the world, which is to say, he was a man who knew how to live.