Benjamin Disraeli

"I believe that nothing in newspapers is ever true," said Madame Phoebus. "And that is why they are so popular," added Euphrosyne; "the tast of the age being so decidedly for fiction."

Nothing can resist a human will that will stake its existence on a purpose

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

The canter is a cure for every evil.

I have sometimes half believed, although the suspicion is mortifying, that there is only one step between his state who deeply indulges in imaginative meditation, and insanity.

And then they say one is misanthropical. Hang it! who can help being misanthropical when he finds everybody getting on in life except himself?

The Vivian Papers.
Mr. Colburn insists, that this is the only title, under which I can possibly publish the letters, which Vivian Grey received on the — — day of — — — , 18 — . I love to be particular in dates.

Every woman should marry ... and no man.

When I want to read a book, I write one.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

The Lord deals with the nations as the nations deal with the Jews.