Isaac Disraeli Golden Quotations

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.