64 Quotes by Isaac D'Israeli

It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

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

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

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.

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