Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.—Beecher.
The first and last thing which is required of genius is the love of truth.—Goethe.
Genius can never despise labor.—Abel Stevens.
And genius hath electric power,
Which earth can never tame;
Bright suns may scorch, and dark clouds lower—
Its flash is still the same.
—Lydia M. Child.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.—Dryden.
Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.—Lady Blessington.
One science only will one genius fit;
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
—Pope.
I know no such thing as genius,—genius is nothing but labor and diligence.—Hogarth.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.—Longfellow.
Genius, without religion, is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace. It may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.—Hannah More.