Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day, and the race a life.

Never apologize for showing feeling...When you do so, you apologize for truth.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.

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

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

We are all born for love...It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Like all great travellers...I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Speech of 1870-06-24

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action. Agricultural Distress, speech in the House of Commons (1851-02-11)

When I want to read a novel, I write one. This was Disraeli's reply on being asked whether he had read George Eliot's Daniel Deronda.

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. Attributed.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. Attributed to more people.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

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

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.

I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole. To friends, on being made Prime Minister (1868)

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists Letter to Mrs. Sarah Brydges Willyams (1863-10-17)

A precedent embalms a principle. Speech on the Expenditures of the Country (1848-02-22)

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Man is not a rational animal. He is only truly good or great when he acts from passion.