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
wise innovation age
This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only rejected AUTHORITY, but have also cast away EXPERIENCE; and often the unburthened vessel is driving to all points of the compass, and the passengers no longer know whither they are going. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by QUOTATION.
luxury age pleasure
An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.
reading age delight
The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
iron age golden
After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
philosophical imagination age
Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.
education age genius
Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.
create fools fools-and-foolishness repeat wise
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
american-celebrity experience preserved wisdom
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
courage famous plant popularity progress resisted seemed suspected taste though
The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected at first, though very palatable to those who had courage to taste it; resisted as it encroached; abused as its popularity seemed to spread; and establishing its
natural sentiments oneself
To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.
literature way folly
It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they necessarily defend the good.
wise art eye
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.
criticism candour gems
Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
men style pulse
Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.