...with regard to standards of morality and generosity.

A life of seizing opportunities that do not obviously present themselves is a life well-lived and well-managed.

You know that well-spoken phrase, "I'd like to take this opportunity to..." well, that is exactly what I'm talking about. An opportunity taken. The opportunity does not necessarily have to be given for it to be taken. And for goodness sake when you need to take an opportunity, grab it by the bull horns and get the job done, and with as much gentility as possible.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America,
but there is no party of principle.

Alexis de Tocqueville