Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius--the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.