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• Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
• Genius is the highest type of reason, talent the highest type of understanding.
• Ditat Deus. (God enriches.)
• The three indispensables of genius are understanding, feeling, and perseverance.
  The three things that enrich genius, are contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and exercising the memory....
• Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inhere
  genius, being the action of reason and imagination, rarely or never. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
• Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius.
  Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Moza...
• Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul.
  Only kindness can do that. -- Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire...