Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
When circumstances don't fit our ideas they become our difficulties
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Do not fear mistakes.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.