Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.—Corneille.
It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don't carry that too far. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow-trade; you must know where to find yourself.—George Eliot.
If cruelty has its expiations and its remorses, generosity has its chances and its turns of good fortune; as if Providence reserved them for fitting occasions, that noble hearts may not be discouraged.—Lamartine.
Genius.—Genius is rarely found without some mixture of eccentricity, as the strength of spirit is proved by the bubbles on its surface.—Mrs. Balfour.
All great men are in some degree inspired.—Cicero.
This is the highest miracle of genius: that things which are not should be as though they were; that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.—Macaulay.
The path of genius is not less obstructed with disappointment than that of ambition.—Voltaire.
One misfortune of extraordinary geniuses is that their very friends are more apt to admire than love them.—Pope.
Genius speaks only to genius.—Stanislaus.
A nation does wisely, if not well, in starving her men of genius. Fatten them, and they are done for.—Charles Buxton.