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• Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
  • Die Welt (1909); also in A Treasury of Jewish Quotations (1985) by Joseph L. Baron

• Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
  • As quoted in Born under Saturn: the character and conduct of artists : a documented history from antiquity to the French Revolution (1963) by Margot Wittkower

The Man of Genius (1891)

• Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.
  • p. x

• Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaningof a passage in his poem. He replied, "God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows."
  • Pt. I, ch. 2

• The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
  • Pt. II, ch. 2

• The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.
  • Pt. III, ch. 3

• "Lawsuit mania"...a continual craving to go to law against others, while considering themselves the injured party.
  • Pt. III, ch. 3