The mere fact that God gives to each a chance is no assurance that it will be used. Men make opportunities far more often than opportunities make men. The trouble is not that we have not lacked a chance, but have possessed it and despised it. Some lose their chance through dullness. They are blind to the chance when it comes.
Every day is hum-drum and every hour uneventful.
They think that all the opportunities are either behind, or they belong to the other fellow. They lose their opportunities because they never see them. One day a glass cutter let some aqua fortis fall on his glasses. This was his opportunity. But he drew some figures on a piece of glass, covered them with varnish, applied the acid, and it cut the glass around the figures.