Opportunity always finds out frauds.

It does not make men, but shows the world what they have made of themselves." Sir Henry Havelock joined the army of India in his twenty-eighth year, and waited till he was sixty-two for the opportunity to show himself fitted to command and skillful to plan.

During those four and thirty years of waiting, he was busy preparing himself for that march to Lucknow which was to make him famous as a soldier.
Farragut, "The viking of our western clime Who made his mast a throne," began his naval career as a mere boy, and was sixty-four years old before he had an opportunity to distinguish himself; but when the great test of his life came, the reserve of half a century's preparation made him master of the situation.
Alexander Hamilton said, "Men give me credit for genius.

All the genius I have lies just in this: when I have a subject in hand I study it profoundly.

Day and night it is before me.