To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.