He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

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

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.

Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be followed by the best modern histories, particularly of our mother country; then of these colonies; which should be accompanied with observations on their rise, increase, use to Great Britain, encouragements and discouragements, the means to make them flourish, and secure their liberties.