Ability Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.YOU MAY ALSO LIKE ยปPeople of humor are always in some degree people of genius.As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius — the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.