Isaac D'Israeli

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or…

— Isaac D'Israeli

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties,…

— Isaac D'Israeli

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

— Isaac D'Israeli

The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

— Isaac D'Israeli

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.

— Isaac D'Israeli

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

— Isaac D'Israeli

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

— Isaac D'Israeli

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

— Isaac D'Israeli

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

— Isaac D'Israeli

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

— Isaac D'Israeli

The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at…

— Isaac D'Israeli

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

— Isaac D'Israeli

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

— Isaac D'Israeli

It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they…

— Isaac D'Israeli

The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.

— Isaac D'Israeli

A poet is a painter of the soul.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is…

— Isaac D'Israeli