Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love love love that is the soul of genius.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination rarely.

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

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again from zero.