When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
Usage is the best language teacher.
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.