We cannot learn men from books.
Benjamin Disraeli

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.
Benjamin Disraeli

We moralize among ruins.
Benjamin Disraeli

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
Benjamin Disraeli

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
Benjamin Disraeli

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
Benjamin Disraeli

When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
Benjamin Disraeli

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Benjamin Disraeli

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
Benjamin Disraeli

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
Benjamin Disraeli

Without tact you can learn nothing.
Benjamin Disraeli

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Benjamin Disraeli

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
Benjamin Disraeli

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Benjamin Disraeli

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
Benjamin Disraeli