Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.

The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.