CHAPTER I.
THE MAN AND THE OPPORTUNITY No man is born into this world whose work is not born with him .-- LOWELL.
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up .-- GARFIELD.
Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement--these are the martial virtues which must command success .-- AUSTIN PHELPS.
"I will find a way or make one." There never was a day that did not bring its own opportunity for doing good that never could have been done before, and never can be again .-- W.

H.BURLEIGH.
"Are you in earnest?
Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, _begin_ it." "If we succeed, what will the world say ?" asked Captain Berry in delight, when Nelson had explained his carefully formed plan before the battle of the Nile.
"There is no if in the case," replied Nelson.

"That we shall succeed is certain.

Who may live to tell the tale is a very different question." Then, as his captains rose from the council to go to their respective ships, he added: "Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey." His quick eye and daring spirit saw an opportunity of glorious victory where others saw only probable defeat.
"Is it POSSIBLE to cross the path ?" asked Napoleon of the engineers who had been sent to explore the dreaded pass of St.Bernard.

"Perhaps," was the hesitating reply, "it is within the limits of _possibility_." "FORWARD THEN," said the Little Corporal, without heeding their account of apparently insurmountable difficulties.