Isaac D'Israeli

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

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

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.