The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places; and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning he eye of the mind inwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Meditation
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Thinking, Reading, Books
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Wisdom, The Future, Experience, Quotations, Future
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Genius, Enthusiasm
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Enthusiasm
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Genius
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Romance
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Excellence
Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius. In all ages solitude has been called for—has been flown to.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Solitude
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
Topics: Criticism
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Foolishness, Fools
The act of contemplation creates the thing contemplated.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Literature
There is a society in the deepest solitude.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Solitude
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