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I. Disraeli . Quotation, like much better things, has its
I. Disraeli. . Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
I. Disraeli. . Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
I. Disraeli. . Proverbs were anterior to books, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.
I. Disraeli. . Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
I. Disraeli. . The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.
I. Disraeli. . Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our philosophical times; ages of genius have passed away, and they left no other record than their works.
I. Disraeli. . To think and to feel constitute the two grand divisions of men of geniusthe men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
I. Disraeli. . We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
I. Disraeli. . Who had hoped for triumph, but who was prepared for sacrifice.
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