Honesty is the best policy.

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

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.

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.