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 more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

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

Assassination has never changed the history of the world. Speech in the House of Commons (1865-05-01)

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.

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

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.

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.

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

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.

Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.