Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere 15 of freedom. J. S. Mill.

Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Emerson.

Genius does not need a special language; it newly uses whatever tongue it finds. Stedman.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. Owen Meredith.

Genius easily hews out its figure from the block, but the sleepless chisel gives it life. Willmott.

Genius, even as it is the greatest good, is the 20 greatest harm. Emerson.

Genius ever stands with nature in solemn union, and what the one foretells the other will fulfil. Schiller.

Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp. Willmott.

Genius grafted on womanhood is like to overgrow it and break its stem. Holmes.

Genius has privileges of its own; it selects an orbit for itself; and be this never so eccentric, if it is indeed a celestial orbit, we mere star-gazers must at last compose ourselves, must cease to cavil at it, and begin to observe it and calculate its laws. Carlyle.