When I want to read a novel, I write one. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

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

"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."