"What will you take for your interest ?" asked Rockefeller.

Andrews wrote carelessly on a piece of paper, "One million dollars." Within twenty-four hours Mr.
Rockefeller handed him the amount, saying, "Cheaper at one million than ten." In twenty years the business of the little refinery, scarcely worth one thousand dollars for building and apparatus, had grown into the Standard Oil Trust, capitalized at ninety millions of dollars, with stock quoted at 170, giving a market value of one hundred and fifty millions.
These are illustrations of seizing opportunity for the purpose of making money.

But fortunately there is a new generation of electricians, of engineers, of scholars, of artists, of authors, and of poets, who find opportunities, thick as thistles, for doing something _nobler than merely amassing riches_.

Wealth is not an end to strive for, but an opportunity; not the climax of a man's career, but an incident.
Mrs.Elizabeth Fry, a Quaker lady, saw her opportunity in the prisons of England.

From three hundred to four hundred half-naked women, as late as 1813, would often be huddled in a single ward of Newgate, London, awaiting trial.