Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

-- Benjamin Disraeli
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

-- Benjamin Disraeli
A precedent embalms a principle.

-- Benjamin Disraeli
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

-- Benjamin Disraeli
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

-- Benjamin Disraeli
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

-- Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

-- Benjamin Disraeli
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.

-- Benjamin Disraeli
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

-- Benjamin Disraeli
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

-- Benjamin Disraeli