A genius is a man who has two great ideas.
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
Jonathan Edwards is without a doubt the most brilliant mind America ever produced. I'm not talking about theologian; I'm talking about mind and everybody. I put him above Einstein and everybody else.
I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.
One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.
Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.
