64 Quotes by Isaac D'Israeli

After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public.

There is a society in the deepest solitude.

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.

Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

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.

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.