2 Metaphors for capability

In the selection of the spot to be occupied by a settlement, the capabilities of the soil must ever be the first consideration; still, however, there will always exist an objection on the ground of its great distance of 16 miles from the mouth of the harbour.

But such capability of happiness in this world is a great temptation, and I sometimes fancy must therefore have been a Fairy gift."

2 Metaphors for  capability