In Memoriam E.B.E. http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=p&ID=20607&c=323, st. 9 <br class="br">Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Le génie enfante, le goût conserve. Le goût est le bon sens du génie; sans le goût, le génie n'est qu'une sublime folie. <br class="br">François-René de Chateaubriand, in "Essai sur la littérature anglaise (1836): Modèles classiques http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=NUMM-101390&M=tdm. <br class="br">Misattributed
“We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away.”
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) English portrait and landscape painter
Quote in Gainsborough's Letter to Henry Bate, 20th June 1787
1770 - 1788
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
Part II, The Encyclopedists, section 5
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“If it comes, let it come. If it stays, let it stay. If it goes, let it go.”
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Two By Two
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Austrian Romantic composer
True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius. - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, entry in Mozart's souvenir album (1787-04-11) from Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon [Harper-Collins, 1966, ISBN 0-060-92692-9], p. 312.
Misattributed
Book 8, Ch. 98
variant: Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed. (Book 8, Ch. 98)
Paraphrase: "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" ”
Appears carved over entrance to Central Post Office building in New York City.
The Histories
“To that creature, being born,
Its birthday is a day to mourn.”
Giacomo Leopardi book Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia
Stato che sia, dentro covile o cuna,
È funesto a chi nasce il dì natale.
Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia (Night song of a nomadic shepherd in Asia) (1829-1830). Translation by Eamon Grennan, Leopardi: Selected Poems [Princeton University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-691-01644-5], p. 62
Poetry
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"On Certain Inconsistencies in Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses" <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
Khalil Gibran book Jesus, The Son of Man
A Man From Lebanon: Nineteen Centuries Afterward
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
