... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.