Industry need not wish.

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

Fiction or fable allures to instruction.

When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.