Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Benjamin DisraeliLife is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.
Benjamin DisraeliDemagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
Benjamin DisraeliThe difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
Benjamin Disraeli