Benjamin Disraeli

"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it."

"Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor."

"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art."

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."

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

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

"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it."

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune."

"When I want to read a novel, I write one."

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

"But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day."

"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."

"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love."

"King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner."

"The secret to success is constancy of purpose."

"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."

"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."

"The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation."

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