Source: Introduction to General Systems Thinking, 1975, p. 12; Cited in: Nawaz Sharif, Pakorn Adulbhan (1978) Systems models for decision making. p. 38
“Gaiety — a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.”
“Diseases"
Elements of Physiology (1875)
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Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 151

Quoted, The Beautiful and Damned (1922)

The Romance of Commerce (1918), A Representative Business of the Twentieth Century

“Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.”
As quoted in Dictionary of Foreign Quotations (1980) by Mary Collison, Robert L. Collison, p. 98

“Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.”
Pt. 2, ch. 8
De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813)

"The Hall of Fantasy" (1843)
Context: As far as my experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in this age, there appears to be a fellow-feeling among them, which had not heretofore been developed. As men, they ask nothing better than to be on equal terms with their fellow-men; and as authors, they have thrown aside their proverbial jealousy, and acknowledge a generous brotherhood.