Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether. Coleridge.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labour in it, but they labour in it because they excel. Hazlitt.
Men of genius have acuter feelings than common men; they are like the wind-harp, which answers to the breath that touches it, now low and sweet, now rising into wild swell or angry scream, as the strings are swept by some passing gust. Froude.
Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer. Emerson.
Men of great gifts you will easily find, but symmetrical men never. Emerson.
Men of great intellect live in the world without really belonging to it. Schiller.
Men of great learning or genius are too full to be exact, and therefore choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. Spectator.
Men of great parts are often unfortunate in 5 the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination. Swift.
Men of humour are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare. Coleridge.
Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law. Milton.