Quote by Isaac Disraeli (1766-1848)

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

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

• Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

• 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.

• The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.