Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRSwas a British politician and writer, who twice served as Prime Minister. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth21 December 1804
dull life-is
There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.
imagination enthusiasm heat
That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.
enthusiasm genius breaths
Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.
men may energy
No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout.
inspiration competition emulation
Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.
egotistical egotism unfortunate
The unfortunate are always egotistical.
education ideas taught
We are taught words, not ideas.
law moral individual
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.
wise law may
Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.
meditation culture
Meditation is culture.
men remember sometimes
Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.
men criticism authorship
Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.
life thinking firsts
That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.
fate men temper
A man's fate is his own temper.