Cleanliness And Order Are Not Matters Of Instinct; They Are Matters Of Education, And Like Most Great Things, You Must Cultivate A Taste For Them.
- Benjamin Disraeli
There Are Three Kinds Of Lies: Lies, Damned Lies, And Statistics.
The Best Way To Become Acquainted With A Subject Is To Write A Book About It.
How Much Easier It Is To Be Critical Than To Be Correct.
Nurture Your Mind With Great Thoughts; To Believe In The Heroic Makes Heroes.
At Present The Peace Of The World Has Been Preserved, Not By Statesmen, But By Capitalists.
Next To Knowing When To Seize An Opportunity, The Most Important Thing In Life Is To Know When To Forego An Advantage.
When Men Are Pure, Laws Are Useless; When Men Are Corrupt, Laws Are Broken.
Ignorance Never Settles A Question.
I Am A Conservative To Preserve All That Is Good In Our Constitution, A Radical To Remove All That Is Bad. I Seek To Preserve Property And To Respect Order, And I Equally Decry The Appeal To The Passions Of The Many Or The Prejudices Of The Few.
Grief Is The Agony Of An Instant, The Indulgence Of Grief The Blunder Of A Life.
Great Services Are Not Canceled By One Act Or By One Single Error.
My Idea Of An Agreeable Person Is A Person Who Agrees With Me.
The Wisdom Of The Wise, And The Experience Of Ages, May Be Preserved By Quotation.
A Conservative Government Is An Organized Hypocrisy.
To Be Conscious That You Are Ignorant Is A Great Step To Knowledge.
Bore: One Who Has The Power Of Speech But Not The Capacity For Conversation.
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