The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

疯狂和天才之间的距离只能用成功来衡量。

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

运用非凡的天赋是人生最大的乐趣。

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.

失败的女性产生天才最一流的最高形式的人类努力被用来阻止所有女性的才华和抱负的知识成就的方式将有趣地荒谬的如果不是如此怪异,不公平和社会有害的。

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

一个好的领导者的天才之处在于，他留下了一个没有天才风度的常识可以成功处理的局面。

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

弹劾的天才之处在于它可以惩罚这个人而不惩罚这个职位。

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

我们的统治阶级的天才之处在于，它阻止了大多数人对一个大多数人辛辛苦苦地工作，却得不到任何回报地缴纳重税的制度的不公平提出质疑。

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

西班牙人民的天才是非常微妙的，但一点也不敏锐;因此，他们的文学作品充满了幽默，却缺乏智慧。

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

经济机器的天才之处在于，它有能力将这些放纵转化为盈利。它将欲望转化为注意力，控制我们的眼球和耳膜，进而向广告商推销。

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

最伟大的天才，当他受到最高理性的谴责和压制时，才显得最伟大。

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

天才所具有的智力是另一种智力。天才的思维不合乎逻辑。它以巨大的椭圆跳跃。它从天知道的地方汲取知识。

The lucky person passes for a genius.

幸运的人被认为是天才。

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

天才就是在自己的艺术中找到快乐的人，而且只有他一个人，无论遇到什么困难，他都愿意为之努力。

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

一个不懂其他语言的人，除非他是个天才，他的思想一定有缺陷。

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.

衡量一个大师的标准是他在二十年后成功地使所有人都同意他的观点。

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

现代艺术家……是工作和表达内心世界——换句话说——表达能量、运动和其他内在力量。