Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.

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.

There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.