Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

天才，在于理解，往往是遗传的;天才，是理性或想象的行为，很少或从来没有。

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge 柯勒律治