The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them. Isaac D'Israeli More Quotes by Isaac D'Israeli More Quotes From Isaac D'Israeli The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. Isaac D'Israeli dunces consolation men The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities. Isaac D'Israeli educated stubborn self 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. Isaac D'Israeli care genius men There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats. Isaac D'Israeli fashion cutting literature Candour is the brightest gem of criticism. Isaac D'Israeli candour gems criticism 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. Isaac D'Israeli pulse style men But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses. Isaac D'Israeli horse war book Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause. Isaac D'Israeli abuse bars may To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion. Isaac D'Israeli sentiments oneself natural The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical. Isaac D'Israeli ceremony lovers action The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Isaac D'Israeli delicacy practice art Golden volumes! richest treasures, Isaac D'Israeli light eye book A great work always leaves us in a state of musing. Isaac D'Israeli great-work states reading Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings. Isaac D'Israeli feelings manners friendship Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins. Isaac D'Israeli genius age education A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one. Isaac D'Israeli circles perfect beautiful The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted. Isaac D'Israeli originals return care 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. Isaac D'Israeli philosophical imagination age The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest. Isaac D'Israeli influence study glory The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature. Isaac D'Israeli taste world art
