Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler - Samuel Johnson

The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

Do not disturb your mind,” said Imlac, “with other hopes or fears than reason may suggest; if you are pleased with the prognostics of good, you will be terrified likewise with tokens of evil, and your whole life will be a prey to superstition.

As with my hat upon my head
I walk'd along the Strand,
I there did meet another man
With his hat in his hand.