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

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

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

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