An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.
Isaac D'IsraeliA well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciรฆ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.
Isaac D'IsraeliThe poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.
Isaac D'Israeli