The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few s... - Benjamin Disraeli
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love."
"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."
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."