Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.