SAYINGS FROM DISRAELI.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12931, 29 July 1905, Page 5 (Supplement)

SAYINGS FROM DISRAELI.

lIK who gains, time gains everything. An obedient wife commands her husband. Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. _ There is a great deal of vice which really is sheer inadvertence. My idea of an. agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. Sympathy is the solace of the poor, but for the rich there is compensation. More pernicious nonsense was never devised by mail than treaties of commerce. We live in an age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow. To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection ; it is plunder. Woman alone can organise a drawingroom ; man succeeds sometimes in a library. The fate of a nation will ultimately depend on. the strength and health of the population. " . ■ To lie harassed about money is one of the most- disagreeable incidents of life. It ruffles the temper, lowers the spirits, disturbs the rest, and finally breaks up the health. One tiling is clear, that a man may speak very well in the House of Commons and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are. two distinct styles requisite. In the Lower House " Don Juan'' may perhaps be our model; in. the Upper House " Paradise Lost."