Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still do justice to your heart. But, so long as you must draw persons too near you, a temporary recoil is sure to follow. It is the character striving to defend itself from a heating and suffocating action upon it.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.