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 2. Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.

 3. Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed by Heaven.

 4. Dead he is not, but departed, - for the artist never dies.

 5. Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

 6. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

 7. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

 8. Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

 9. For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

10. For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

11. Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

12. Genius - To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

13. Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

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

15. Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.

16. Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

17. Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

18. Genius is eternal patience.

19. Genius is independent of situation.

20. Genius is initiative on fire.

21. Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

22. Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

23. Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire.

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

25. Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

26. Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.

27. Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

28. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

29. Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

30. Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

31. Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

32. He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

33. He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

34. If people knew how hard I have to work to gain my mastery it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.

35. If we can advance propositions both true and new, these are our own by right of discovery; and if we can repeat what is old, more briefly and brightly than others, this also becomes our own, by right of conquest.

36. Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

37. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

38. Imagination is the eye of the soul.

39. Imagination rules the world.

40. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

41. In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

42. Inventing is a combination of brains and materials.

43. It forgives everything except genius.

44. It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

45. It lies in the man: that is all anybody can tell you about it.

46. Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

47. Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

48. Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

49. Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

50. Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.

51. Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

52. Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede - not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.

53. Talent is a cistern; genius a fountain.

54. Talent is often to be envied, and genius very commonly to be pitied. It stands twice the chance of the other of dying in a hospital, in jail, in debt, in bad repute. It is a perpetual insult to mediocrity; its every word is at respass against somebody's vested ideas.

55. Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

56. Talent repeats, genius creates.

57. Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason and imagination, rarely or never.

58. The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

59. The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

60. The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

61. The honors of genius are eternal.

62. The human body is the magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

63. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

64. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.

65. The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

66. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact.

67. The merit of great men is not understood, but by those who are formed to be such themselves; genius speaks only to genius.

68. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

69. The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone.

70. The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

71. The public is wonderfully tolerant.

72. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

73. The three indispensables of genius are understanding, feeling, and perseverance.The three things that enrich genius are contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and exercising the memory.

74. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them.

75. There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told.

76. There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.

77. There is the happiness which comes from creative effort.

78. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.

79. To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

80. True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

81. When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

82. When I am finishing a picture I hold God a made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a kind of final test.

83. Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old; condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.

84. Work is the great redeemer. It has therapeutic value. It brings happiness.