The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

A valet, of stealthy step, thence conducted me, in silence, through many dark and intricate passages in my progress to the studio of his master.

Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise