Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeAlas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThere is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge