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

"Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of di…"

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

"One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission."

"It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other."

"an extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition."