Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
From Benjamin Disraeli
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Without tact you can learn nothing.
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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