Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.

When you taste honey, remember gall.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.

I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance [as the framing of the Constitution] ... should be suffered to pass without being in some degree influenced, guided, and governed by that omnipotent, omnipresent, and beneficent Ruler in whom all inferior spirits live and move and have their being.

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.