Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Quote by Isaac D'Israeli

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Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work,...

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work,...

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work,...

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work,...

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and...

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and...

The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected...

The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected...

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected...

The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected...

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and...

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and...

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours,...

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours,...

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody....

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody....

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any...

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any...

I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book

I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one;...

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one;...

Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his...

Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his...

When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices...

When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices...

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They...

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They...

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole...

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole...