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

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

Hope of gain lessens pain.

It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.

When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.