She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.
Benjamin DisraeliYou will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Benjamin DisraeliWhat is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.
Benjamin Disraeli