The spark once transmitted may smoulder for generations under ashes, but the appointed time will come, and it will flare up to warm the world. God never allows waste. And we fools rub our eyes and wonder, when we see genius come out of the gutter. It didn't begin there. We tell ourselves that Shakespeare was the son of a woolpedlar, and Napoleon of a farmer, and Luther of a peasant, and we hold up our hands at the marvel. But who knows what kings and prophets they had in their ancestry!

We none of us know our ancestors beyond a little way. We all of us may have kings' blood in our veins.

Generations follow, oblivious of the high beginnings, but there is that in the stock which is fated to endure. The sons and daughters blunder and sin and peris…

The things we call aristocracies and reigning houses are the last places to look for masterful men. They began strongly, but they have been too long in possess…

Genio es personalidad con dos duros de talento.

'Genius' (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).

Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstandin…