"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."

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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last."

"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."

"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."

"One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius."

"If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators."

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."

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