More quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
"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."
"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."
"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."