Genius itself is a kind of knowledge, namely, of ideas; and it is a knowledge which is unconcerned with any principle of causation.

Let's seedinner and the evening five timesafternoon calls as manywith motor trips to points of interestand one theater party to Los Angelesbelieve me; it is not often that struggling genius is so rewardedbefore it has accomplished anything bad enough to merit such attention.

"Stockton has the knack, perhaps genius would be a better word, of writing in the easiest of colloquial English, without descending to the plane of the vulgar or commonplace.

"Solid acquirement" is the genius of wits become the wisdom of reviewers.

Emily herself had no legend; but her genius was perpetually the prey of rumours that left her personality untouched.

The genius of monasticism, ancient and modern, is the propitiation of the Divinity who seeks to punish rather than to forgive.

Miss Evans was an exemplification of the fact that a great genius is not an exceptional, capricious product of nature, but a thing of slow, laborious growth, the fruit of industry and the general culture of the faculties.

"The greatest genius on earth, not even a Bacon, can be a perfect master of every branch.

The genius of these strugglers against an apparent impregnable seat of wickedness was patience, "the passion of great hearts.

Genius is the faculty of aesthetic Ideas, but an aesthetic Idea is a representation of the imagination which animates the mind, which adds to a concept of the understanding much of ineffable thought, much that belongs to the concept but which cannot be comprehended in a definite concept.

Paolo Doni, a painter of battle scenes, was so fond of birds that he was known as Uccello (a bird) and now has no other name; Pietro Vannucci coming from Perugia was called Perugino; Agnolo di Francesco di Migliore happened to be a tailor with a genius of a son, Andrea; that genius is therefore Andrea of the Tailordel Sartofor all time.

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself,and not a taper lighted at the hearth-stone of the race, which pales before the light of common day.

Their peculiar genius is the management of horses, mules and cattle.

But the genius of the language of signs is such as to be in itself of very little, if any, direct assistance in the acquisition of syntactical language, owing to the diversity in the order of construction existing between the English language and the language of signs.

It was not until the nineteenth century, whose speculative genius is a sort of living Hamlet, that the tragedy of Hamlet could find such wondering readers.

All classes and conditions are there; workingmen are toiling that others may seize all the first fruits of their labor and live high on the proceeds; and the genius of the throng is Lady Bribery, a powerfully drawn figure, expressing the corrupt social life of the times.

These books are rightly called by Paul, the "Holy Scriptures," the scriptures of holiness, the writings whose genius is goodness.

My genius is a prophet.

"What a pity is it," said they, "that such a great genius should be so bad a knight!"

This genius for creative interpretation is the soul and significance of all his criticism.

These, said the Genius, are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like Cares and Passions that infest human Life.

He has been a by-word for the misfortunes of genius: but genius was not his misfortune; it was his only good, and might have brought him all happiness.

Genius is egotism; the superb confidence of these men, each in the sanctity of his own mission, in the plenitude of his own powers, in the inspiration of his own message, made them what they were.

Genius was a favorite subject of speculation with Schopenhauer, and he often touches upon it in the course of his works; always, however, to put forth the same theory in regard to it as may be found in the concluding section of this volume.

The genius of the Reformation in its early stages was a religious movement, not a political or a moral one, although it became both political and moral.