Genius is to Wit as the whole is in proportion to its parts.

f. DE LA BRUYERE The Characters or Manners of the Present Age. Every work of genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

g. ISAAC DISRAELI-Literary Character of Men of Genius. Ch. XXV. Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. h.

ISAAC DISRAELI-- Curiosities of Literature. Poverty of the Learned. Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

ISAAC DISRAELI-Literary Character
of Men of Genius. Ch. XXV.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiam of genius. ISAAC DISRAELI-Literary Character of Men of Genius. Ch. XII.

2.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. GEO. HENRY LEWES-The Spanish Drama. Ch. II.

All the means of actionThe shapeless mass, the materialsLie everywhere about us. What we need Is the celestial fire to change the flint Into transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius!

7. LONGFELLOW-The Spanish Student.

Act I. Sc. 5.

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural talent. S. PINDAR.

There is none but he Whose being I do fear: and under him My genius is rebuk'd; as, it is said, Mark Antony's was by Cæsar.

t. Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 1.

น.

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it. MADAME DE STAEL-Corinne. Bk. XVI. Ch. I. Genius is essentially creative; it bears the character of the individual who possesses it. MADAME DE STAEL-Corinne. Bk. VII. Ch. I. When genius is united with true feeling, our talents multiply our woes.

v.

w.

MADAME DE STAËL-Corinne. Bk. XV. Ch. VI.

Genius can never despise labour.

x.

ABEL STEVENS-Life of Madame de Staël. Ch. XXXVIII.

Cel. Let us sit, and mock the good housewife, Fortune, from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally.

Ros. I would we could do so; for her benefits are mightily misplaced: and the bountiful blind woman doth most mistake in her gifts to women.

t. As You Like It. Act I. Sc. 2.

Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.

น. Hamlet. Act III. Sc. I.

Win her with gifts, if she respect not words; Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, More than quick words, do move a woman's mind.

v.

Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act III. Sc. 1.

m. PLATO.

Father of All! in ev'ry Age,

In ev'ry clime ador'd,

By Saint, by Savage, and by Sage,
Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!

n. POPE-Universal Prayer.

He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

j.

MILTON-Paradise Lost.

Line 26. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Bk. V. Line 153. Who best

x.

p. Cymbeline. Act III. Sc. 3.
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness;
The signet of its all-enslaving power
Upon a shining ore, and called it gold:
Before whose image bow the vulgar great,
The vainly rich, the miserable proud,
The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and
kings,

And with blind feelings reverence the power
That grinds them to the dust of misery.
But in the temple of their hireling hearts
Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn
All earthly things but virtue.

9. SHELLEY Queen Mab. Pt. V. St. 4.

GOODNESS.

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good.

1'. AURELIUS ANTONINUS- Thoughts. Ch. VII. What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall come well.

EDWIN ARNOLD-The Light of Asia. Bk. VI. Line 273