When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.