The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.—DISRAELI.
"There are no longer any good chances for young men," complained a law student to Daniel Webster. "There is always room at the top," replied the great lawyer.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
"The world is all gates, all opportunities to him who can use them.'
"'T is never offered twice, seize then the hour
When fortune smiles and duty points the way."
No chance, no opportunities, in a land where many poor boys become rich men, where newsboys go to Congress, and where those born in the lowest stations attain the highest positions? The world is all gates, all opportunities to him who will use them. But, like Bunyan's Pilgrim in the dungeon of Giant Despair's castle, who had the key of deliverance all the time with him but had forgotten it, we fail to rely wholly upon the ability to advance all that is good for us which has been given to the weakest as well as the strongest. We depend too much upon outside assistance.