“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”

“Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.”

“What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.”

“There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.”

“...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.”

“It is impossible to have bad taste, but many people have none at all.”

“Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.”