Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.

I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.