Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Since when was genius found respectable?
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
It is always well to get near to men of genius.