Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Source: And Even Now, Quia Imperfectum, 1920.
-- Max Beerbohm, (Aug 24 1872-1956), English essayist, caricaturist, parodist; The Incomparable Max wrote many elegant essays; the novel Zuleika Dobson 1911, and a pictorial volume of caricatures.