Undiscovered

"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered--either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice...I have touched upon this matter in a small book which I wrote a generation ago and which I have not published as yet--Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. When Stormfield arrived in heaven he...was told that...a shoemaker...was the most prodigious military genius the planet had ever produced."
--Mark Twain,
"The Autobiography of Mark Twain" (1959 edition, edited by Charles Neider).