Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.
Avenues greater in number, wider in extent, easier of access than ever before existed, stand open to the sober, frugal, energetic and able mechanic, to the educated youth, to the office boy and to the clerk--avenues through which they can reap greater successes than ever before within the reach of these classes in the history of the world.
A little while ago there were only three or four professions--now there are fifty.

And of trades, where there was one, there are a hundred now.
"What is its name ?" asked a visitor in a studio, when shown, among many gods, one whose face was concealed by hair, and which had wings on its feet.

"Opportunity," replied the sculptor.

"Why is its face hidden ?" "Because men seldom know him when he comes to them." "Why has he wings on his feet ?" "Because he is soon gone, and once gone, cannot be overtaken." "Opportunity has hair in front," says a Latin author; "behind she is bald; if you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her, but, if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again." But what is the best opportunity to him who cannot or will not use it?
"It was my lot," said a shipmaster, "to fall in with the ill-fated steamer _Central America_.

The night was closing in, the sea rolling high; but I hailed the crippled steamer and asked if they needed help.
'I am in a sinking condition,' cried Captain Herndon.