"Talent does things tolerably well; genius does..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.”

“To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.”

“Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.”

“The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.”

“Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world.”

“Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men.”

“No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .”

“Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.”

“Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.”