No doubt many artists had noticed the fine quality of the marble, and regretted that it should have been spoiled.

But Michael Angelo still saw an angel in the ruin, and with his chisel and mallet he called out from it one of the finest pieces of statuary in Italy, the young David.
Patrick Henry was called a lazy boy, a good-for-nothing farmer, and he failed as a merchant.

He was always dreaming of some far-off greatness, and never thought he could be a hero among the corn and tobacco and saddlebags of Virginia.

He studied law for six weeks; when he put out his shingle.

People thought he would fail, but in his first case he showed that he had a wonderful power of oratory.