Life is a kind of chess.

There is none deceived but he that trusts.

It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency.

A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.

On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.