Humphry Davy Quote

The man who labours to produce effect, can never have the highest degree of genius. That polish of style, that smoothness of versification, and that harmony of periods, which demand labour, and labour only, are incompatible with the strong and rapid combinations of genius.

In: John Davy, Fragmentary Remains, Literary and Scientific, of Sir Humphry Davy, Chapter III (p. 115)