"Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”

“We never tire of the friendships we form with books.”

“"We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever constant and true - till the times have got so changed as that everything helps us out, and nothing makes us ridiculous, and the fairies have come back. We will wait - ever constant and true - till we are eighty, ninety, or one hundred. And then the fairies will send US children, and we will help them out, poor pretty little creatures, if they pretend ever so much."”

“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”

“Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend”

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

“What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?”

“Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.”

“Failure is often the line of least persistence.”