King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
Benjamin DisraeliWhat are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?
Benjamin DisraeliYou behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
Benjamin DisraeliAnd it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style.
Benjamin Disraeli