“This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?”

1860s
Variant: The question is this— Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.
Variant: Is man an ape or an angel? Now, I am on the side of the angels!
Speech at Oxford Diocesan Conference (25 November 1864), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 108.

Source: The Name of the Wind

Source: The Franchise Affair

Remarks on British Prime Minister John Major (28 September 1993), quoted in The Times (29 September 1993), p. 1
President of the European Commission

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: The Immoralist

Bk. I, ch. 7.
The History of Henry Esmond (1852)

I, q. 111, art. 1, ad 3
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)

Included in Portrait-Life of Lincoln (1910) by Francis T Miller
Posthumous attributions