CHAPTER V.
OPPORTUNITIES WHERE YOU ARE To each man's life there comes a time supreme; One day, one night, one morning, or one noon, One freighted hour, one moment opportune, One rift through which sublime fulfillments gleam, One space when fate goes tiding with the stream, One Once, in balance 'twixt Too Late, Too Soon, And ready for the passing instant's boon To tip in favor the uncertain beam.
Ah, happy he who, knowing how to wait, Knows also how to watch and work and stand On Life's broad deck alert, and at the prow To seize the passing moment, big with fate, From Opportunity's extended hand, When the great clock of destiny strikes Now! MARY A.TOWNSEND.
What is opportunity to a man who can't use it?
An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into non-entity .-- GEORGE ELIOT.
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 youthful law student to Daniel Webster.

"There is always room at the top," replied the great statesman and jurist.
No chance, no opportunities, in a land where thousands of 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.
"We look too high For things close by." A Baltimore lady lost a valuable diamond bracelet at a ball, and supposed that it was stolen from the pocket of her cloak.

Years afterward she washed the steps of the Peabody Institute, pondering how to get money to buy food.