No great genius is without an admixture of madness.

No great genius is without an admixture of madness.

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

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

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more
complex. . . . It takes a touch of genius--and read more

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more
complex. . . . It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.

Genius and its rewards are briefly told:
A liberal nature and a niggard doom,
A difficult journey read more

Genius and its rewards are briefly told:
A liberal nature and a niggard doom,
A difficult journey to a splendid tomb.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genii.

True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genii.

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

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

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.