While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Lately we have had many losses.
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.