Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.

He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not read more

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have read more

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that read more

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

A thousand year a poor man watched
Before the gate of Paradise:
But while one little nap read more

A thousand year a poor man watched
Before the gate of Paradise:
But while one little nap he snatched,
It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise?