Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is not a seventh sense, but is the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and the lively touch; it is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles. W. P. Scargill.
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is. Lowell.
Talent ist Form, Genie Stoff—Talent is form, 50 genius is substance. Gutzkow.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason and imagination, rarely or never. Coleridge.
Talents angel-bright, if wanting worth, are shining instruments in false ambition's hand, to finish faults illustrious, and give infamy renown. Young.
Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence. Rollin.
Taliter qualiter—Such as it is.
Talk, except as the preparation for work, is 5 worth almost nothing; sometimes it is worth infinitely less than nothing; and becomes, little conscious of playing such a fatal part, the general summary of pretentious nothingnesses, and the chief of all the curses the posterity of Adam are liable to in this sublunary world. Carlyle.
Talk of the devil and he'll appear. Pr.
Talk that does not end in action is better suppressed altogether. Carlyle.