Genius

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius

Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.

It requires more than mere genius to be an author

Between genius and talent there is the proportion of the whole to its part

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle

Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times