Brilliance (n.) gets a child moved up a grade and away from every friend they had.
Brilliance (n.) is a gift that turns conversation into an audience.
Brilliance (n.) is endowed with a contracting principle — tall women should sew glittering buttons the length of their dresses to contain their height.
Brilliance (n.) turns into glare when it loses its timing.
Cleverness (n.) is all you can be if the light from above is lacking.
Cleverness (n.) about the extent of sin would, if it convinced love, stop love from ever beginning.
Cleverness (n.) must be overcome by Christianity in these clever times, as ferocity once was; unless men learn to despise acting cleverly as they despise stealing, the eternal is done away with — for it is bearing false witness against the eternal, stealing existence from God.
Cleverness (n.) so convinces a great many people of their own that they have never in their lives met any but fools.
Cunning (n.) beats force: it is suppler, reads its surroundings, and does less violence than a rigid moral law.
Cunning (n.) ranges from the instinctive to the planned; an idiot may act slyly though we'd never think him capable of planning.
Cunning (n.) used to win a girl can never be undone, not even reinterpreted by imagination — even her interpretation could say nothing of how things would have been without it.
Cunning (n.) frightened me when I wooed her, lest I be too artful; now I am compelled to be that.
Genius (n.) is simultaneity of sight.
Genius (n.) is ever a secret to itself.
Genius (n.) is transcendence of the given