Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it's not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude

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

We make our own fortune and call it destiny.

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

We are taught words, not ideas.

Nature is stronger than education.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Duty cannot exist without faith

Something will turn up.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard

Life is too short to be small.

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Female friendships are of rapid growth.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

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

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

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.