I was reading on another blog that Oliver Wendall Holmes once said of FDR that he had a “second-rate intellect but a first-rate temperment.”

So I sat and thought for a moment, and I’m conflicted.  Would I rather have people say of me…

Charlie has a second-rate intellect but a first-rate temperment.

or

Charlie has a second-rate temperment, but a first-rate intellect.

or

Charlie has neither a 1st rate temperment or intellect…everything the man does is second-rate.