The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
— Isaac D'Israeli
Literature
If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.
— Isaac D'Israeli
Business
To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.
The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
— Isaac D'Israeli
Literature
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.