Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age....

Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.

There sit the sainted sage, the bard divine, / The few, whom genius gave to shine / Through every unborn age, and undiscovered clime.

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.