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

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

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

All kin' o' smily round the lips, / An' teary round the lashes.

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.