Genius is ever the greatest mystery to itself. 35 Schiller.
Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please. I. M. Wise.
Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilises a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary. H. W. Mabie.
Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it. T. W. Higginson.
Genius is mainly an affair of energy. Matthew Arnold.
Genius is not a single power, but a combination 40 of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all. Whipple.
Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience. Buffon.
Genius is nothing but labour and diligence. Hogarth.
Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. Haydon.
Genius is nothing more than the effort of the idea to assume a definite form. Fichte.