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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.