You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.

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.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.