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By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great geniuses, fires which give to them an inconquerable vitality of spirit which breaks down all barriers as wheat bends before the wind.

Genius appeals to the future.

Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount of work. The second is that they never know fatigue. And the third is that their minds grow more brilliant as they grow older, instead of less brilliant. Great men's lives begin at forty, where the mediocre man's life ends. The genius remains an ever-flowing fountain of creative achievement until the very last breath he draws.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him.

I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every Nation has something peculiar in its Manufactures, its Works of Genius, its Medicines, its Agriculture, its Customs, and its Policy. He only is a useful Traveller, who brings home something by which his country may be benefited; who procures some supply of Want, or some mitigation of Evil, which may enable his readers to compare their condition with that of others, to improve it whenever it is worse, and whenever it is better to enjoy it.

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Genius hath electric power; _x000D_Which earth can never tame; _x000D_Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; _x000D_Its flash is still the same.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.