Taste is the common sense of genius.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
Common sense is the genius of humanity.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Taste is the feminine of genius.