“Despair and Genius are too oft connected”

“The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a science-fiction voyage into the future as much as a plunge into the past.”

“Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or cart.”

“Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions. We also forget that genius is not genius all the time, although it is superior all the time.”

“Nothing and no one makes sense to a genius except his own mind. Meaning, he doesn’t trust anyone except if you’re a genius too.”

“Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.”

“You must be ready to be called a ‘madman’ too, another name for genius in our generation.”

“Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?”

“Theirs, too, is the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.”

“She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.”