Commonsense is very uncommon. [ Horace Greeley ]

I want a hero: an uncommon want.
When every year and month sends forth a new one. [ Byron ]

An uncommon degree of imagination constitutes poetical genius. [ Dugald Stewart ]

Common sense, in an uncommon degree, is what the world calls wisdom. [ Coleridge ]

Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse. [ Hume ]

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity. [ Hazlitt ]

Commonsense in one view is the most uncommon sense. While it is extremely rare in possession, the recognition of it is universal. All men feel it, though few men have it [ H. N. Hudson ]

Throughout the pages of history we are struck with the fact that our remarkable men possessed mothers of uncommon talents for good or bad, and great energy of character; it would almost seem from this circumstance, that the impress of the mother is more frequently stamped on the boy, and that of the father upon the girl - we mean the mental intellectual impress, in distinction from the physical ones. Mothers will do well to remember that their impress is often stamped upon their sons. [ Helen Mar ]