Benjamin Disraeli: “Nothing delighted him more than to assist and advance others.”

In these days of labour, the leader of a party must be the man who does the work, and that work cannot now be accomplished without the devotion of a life.

He valued life only as a means of fulfilling duty, and truly it may be said of him, that he feared none but God.

It is not at all difficult to conceive a mode of governing a country more expeditious than by a parliament; but where truth as well as strength is held to be an essential element of legislation, opinion must be secured an unrestricted…

But an hour from an uninteresting speaker would be a great infliction.