“Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”

— Benjamin Disraeli, Count Alarcos, 1839, Act IV, sc. i

About Benjamin Disraeli

1804 – 1881

British statesman, twice Prime Minister, and novelist.

“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”

“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”

“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.”

“Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.”

“There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.”

“If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.”

“How long will men dare to call anything expedient that is not right?”

“Delay always breeds danger.”

“In hidden inwardness all are Christians; who would dare deny this?”