"Ability has nothing to do with opportunity...." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.”

“The word impossible is not French.”

“Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.”

“Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.”

“I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.”

“Generosity should never exceed ability.”

“Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.”

“The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.”

“For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.”