Sublime

His favorite occupation consisted in embellishing his rhetoric with all the proprieties of gesticulation and utterance.

"that man has, then, a spark of pity in his soul; of that spark I will make a flame that shall devour him.

There was the madness of pride in every word he uttered.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."

"You propose," replied I, "to fly from the habitations of man, to dwell in those wilds where the beasts of the field will be your only companions. How can you, who long for the love and sympathy of man, persevere in this exile? You will return and again seek their kindness, and you will meet with their detestation; your evil passions

At the heart of Disraeli’s beliefs lay the thought that imagination and courage are the indispensable components of political greatness for an individual or a nation. That conviction, rather than any particular Bill, book, speech, treaty or quotation, is the true legacy of Benjamin Disraeli.

Never trust any ruler who puts his faith in tunnels and bunkers and escape routes. The chances are that his heart isn’t in the job.”

for ineptitude is always synonymous with multitude, and nothing is fuller than an empty mind.

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact,”