Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right...

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right...

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business...

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business...

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother...

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother...

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the...

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the...

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books...

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books...

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must...

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must...

There is no education like adversity.

There is no education like adversity.

We are all born for love... it is the principle existence and it's only end.

We are all born for love... it is the principle existence and it's only end.

Success is the child of audacity.

Success is the child of audacity.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in...

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in...

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than...

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than...

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.