Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.

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.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.