Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself.

A place for everything, everything in its place..

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains..

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to..

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events..

Games lubricate the body and the mind..

Do well by doing good..

If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money..

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors..

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy..

Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth..

Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore….

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty..

Fatigue is the best pillow..

Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe..

Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good..

If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear..

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read..

Plough deep while sluggards sleep..

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon..