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.
Source: In Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World, by Edythe Draper, 1992.
-- Cesare Lombroso, (Nov 6 1836-1909), Italian criminologist, physician, educator; He founded the concept of the born criminal, but advocated humane treatment in L'umo delinquente, 1876.