The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.

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

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

Those who are fear'd, are hated.