“Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.”

“If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.”

“Talent does what it can genius does what it must. ”

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”

“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”

“If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.”

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”

“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.”

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”