Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

"The secret to success is constancy of purpose."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."