
“We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.”
Tancred, Chapter 46.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)
Tancred; or, The New Crusade is a novel by Benjamin Disraeli, first published by Henry Colburn in three volumes. Together with Coningsby and Sybil it forms a sequence sometimes called the Young England trilogy. It shares a number of characters with the earlier novels, but unlike them is concerned less with the political and social condition of England than with a religious and even mystical theme: the question of how Judaism and Christianity are to be reconciled, and the Church reborn as a progressive force.
“We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.”
Tancred, Chapter 46.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)
“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”
Bk. IV, Ch. 8.
Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)