Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Other quotes by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.