The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.

- Isaac D'Israeli

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 t…

- Isaac D'Israeli

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 throu…

- Isaac D'Israeli

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

- Isaac D'Israeli

All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often…

- Isaac D'Israeli

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

- Isaac D'Israeli

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

- Isaac D'Israeli

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

- Isaac D'Israeli

One may quote till one compiles.

- Isaac D'Israeli