Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London

"Oh, I don't dare to say that Dick is as good, as cosmically good, as
Lincoln," she hurried on. "Dick _is_ good, but it is not that. It
is in their excessive balance, normality, lack of flare, that they are
of the same type. Now I am a genius. For, see, I do things without
knowing how I do them. I just do them. I get effects in my music that
way. Take my diving. To save my life I couldn't tell how I swan-dive,
or jump, or do the turn and a half.