News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news. – Benjamin Disraeli
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. – Benjamin Disraeli
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. – Benjamin Disraeli
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each others habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor. – Benjamin Disraeli
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. – Chief Seattle of the Suquamish Tribe, letter to President Franklin Pierce