Benjamin DisraeliThinkers

Adversity is essential to growth — There's no education like it.

Adversity is the best kind of education.

Book writing is the best way to become acquainted with a subject.

The City is defined by the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest... faith hovers over the towers of jerusalem, and athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, art.

Conservatism is an ideology which, prior to the movement's embrace of capitalism, promoted paternalism, and the idea that the upper classes had a paternalistic obligation to the classes below them. It pushed social obligation over individualism.

Courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Education's best kind is adversity.

Flattery is like a qualmish liqueur in the midst of a bottle of wine.

Jerusalem is a thing over whose towers faith hovers.

Knowledge is attained already in that great step of being conscious that you are ignorant.

Liberalism inserts into the practical business of life not political principles (as it should), but rather a politics of philosophical ideas (which it shouldn't).