It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Since when was genius found respectable?
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.