He [T. E. Lawrence] had a genius for backing into the limelight.

It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is

Genius . . . means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble.

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

There sit the sainted sage, the bard divine, / The few, whom genius gave to shine / Through every unborn age, and undiscovered clime.