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.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

There is no diplomacy like silence.

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

We cannot learn men from books.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?