Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious character among private persons; the mischiefs of superstition, and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.