Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination.

Be content to seem what you really are

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.