The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves--the creature of habits and infirmities.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius--the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.