Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. Change is constant. The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity. Speech, Nov. 25, 1864. It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Disraeli I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. The secret of success is constancy of purpose. The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. The men who have failed in literature and art.