Edward Bulwer-Lytton on genius

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.

Not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack

• Education

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas Edison1847–1931