All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime. Isaac D'Israeli Read Quote
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth. Isaac D'Israeli Read Quote
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. Isaac D'Israeli Read Quote
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius – the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. Isaac D'Israeli Read Quote
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author. Isaac D'Israeli Read Quote
Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt. Isaac D'Israeli Read Quote
