Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

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

He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.