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Doing easily what others find it difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character too.

Genius is only patience.

Genius . . . means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius--the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

But genius must be born, and never can be taught.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. . . . It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.

Genius and its rewards are briefly told: A liberal nature and a niggard doom, A difficult journey to a splendid tomb.

Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire.