Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius.

In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.