re than two hairs
or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.--_Montaigne._

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history
of human errors.--_Voltaire._

If a man should register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion,
learning, etc., beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what
a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at
last.--_Swift._

One of the mistakes in the conduct of human life is, to suppose that
other men's opinions are to make us happy.--_Burton._

It is with true opinions which one has the courage to utter as with
pawns first advanced on the chess-board; they may be beaten, but they
have inaugurated a game which must be won.--_Goethe._

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge
it, the skillful direct it.--_Mme. Roland._

~Opportunity.~--The cleverest of all devils is opportunity.--_Vieland._

Chance opportunities make us known to others, and still more to
ourselves.--_Rochefoucauld._

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg,
which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.--_George Eliot._

There is no man whom Fortune does not visit once in his life; but when
she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door and
flies out at the window.--_Cardinal Imperiali._

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see
nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them
when they are gone.--_George Eliot._

Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.--_Jeremy
Collier._

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the
love of a woman, answered: "Opportunity."--_Moore._

Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish.--_Lord
Stanley._

You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make
it.--_Charles Buxton._

~Opposition.~--The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who
rise refreshed on hearing of a threat,--men to whom a crisis which
intimidates and paralyzes the majority--demanding, not the faculties of
prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, the readiness of
sacrifice--comes graceful and beloved as a bride!--_Emerson._

Nobody loves heartily unless people take pains to prevent
it.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Oratory.~--Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as
men get on horseback when they cannot w