The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

Success is the child of audacity.

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.