Benjamin Disraeli

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

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."

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

"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."

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

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

"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."

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

"Most people die with their music still locked up inside them."

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

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

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

"The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end."

"The secret to success is constancy of purpose."

"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."

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

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

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune."

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

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