69 Quotes by Isaac Disraeli

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

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

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

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.

A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!

One may quote till one compiles.

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.