Genius always finds itself a century too early.

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side...when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time...is a very good one..

When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius.

In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.