"What is genius but the power of..." - Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Enough! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The moss reprints more tenderly The hard types of the mason's knife, As Heaven's sweet life renews earth's life With which we're tired, my heart and I .... In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were loved, used, - well enough, I think, we've fared, my heart and I.”

“What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?”

“World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.”

“Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.”

“The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.”

“The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.”

“No two persons have the same mind or the same body.”

“No one can transcend their own individuality.”

“Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another.”