The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.

Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

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.

Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.