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Talents: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

And sure th' Eternal Master found His single talent well employ'd.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Verses on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet. St. 7.

Talent is that which is in a man's power! genius is that in whose power a man is.— LOWELL — Among my Books. Rousseau

and the Sentimentalists.

Magni est ingenii revocare mentem a sensibus, et cogitationem a consuetudine abducere. It is a proof of great talents to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.— CICERO — Tusculanarum Disputationum.

Ne forçons point notre talent; Nous ne ferions rien avec grâce: Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse, Ne saurait passer pour galant. Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown. whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman.— LA FONTAINE — Fables. IV. 5.

Nul n'aura de l'esprit, hors nous et nos amis. No one shall have wit save we and our friends.— MOLIÈRE — Les Femmes Savantes. III. 2.