Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

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

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.