Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. – Benjamin Disraeli
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. – Benjamin Disraeli
Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. – Benjamin Disraeli
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. – Benjamin Disraeli
Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. – Benjamin Disraeli
Frank and explicit — that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others. – Benjamin Disraeli
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy. – Gary Saul Morson, The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel, 2012