Isaac D'Israeli Quotes

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.