Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.
Benjamin DisraeliGovernments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
Benjamin DisraeliSome will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.
Benjamin DisraeliI am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
Benjamin Disraeli