Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is

It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomach ache.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions