To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
Benjamin DisraeliNever argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.
Benjamin DisraeliHow very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.
Benjamin Disraeli