Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.

Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . . If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence, in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If I had ever before been an atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and government of a Deity!

The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.