More quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

"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."
"But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day."
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love."
"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."