Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.
I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.