| S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880. | | | | Opportunity |
| | | Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. Jeremy Collier. | 1 |
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| Opportunity has hair in front, behind she is bald: if you seize her by the forelock you may hold her, but, if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again. From the Latin. | 2 |
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| Opportunity is in respect to time, in some sense, as time is in respect to eternity: it is the small moment, the exact point, the critical minute, on which every good work so much depends. Thomas Sprat. | 3 | | |
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