Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius

Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.

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

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.