Isaac Disraeli

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.