People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.

When you are in debt, then you are a slave.

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.

To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

[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.