Isaac Disraeli
Isaac Disraeli
Isaac D'Israeliwas a British writer, scholar and man of letters. He is best known for his essays, his associations with other men of letters, and as the father of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli...
Isaac Disraeli quotes about
philosophy imagination enthusiasm
Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
men care golden
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.
men thinking two
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
feelings events genius
Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.
contemplative-life contemplation contemplative
The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
nurse solitude enthusiasm
Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.
solitude
There is a society in the deepest solitude.
reading age delight
The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
real men golden
If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.
abuse quotations
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
writing hands deception
Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when he came to compare them with their originals, he was surprised to find that they were nothing for his purpose! the originals conveyed a quite contrary sense to that of the pretended quoters, who often, from innocent blundering, and sometimes from purposed deception, had falsified their quotations. This is an useful story for second-hand authorities!
gratitude research might
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue.
design execution should
A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.
iron age golden
After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.