A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is 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. – Benjamin Disraeli
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour. – Benjamin Disraeli
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. – Benjamin Disraeli
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. – Benjamin Disraeli
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by St