Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.

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

You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but endeavour to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression that may be used with truth; such as, you understand the game better than I, but you are a little inattentive, or, you play too fast; or, you had the best of the game, but something happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in my favour.

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

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

Read much, but not too many books.

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.