chance

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

If we do not make common cause to save the good ship of the Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

I will study and prepare and perhaps my chance will come.

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.