“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together ”

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled”

“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up”

“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary”

“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think ”

“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them”