A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges..

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

Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither..

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances..

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory..

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and….

Let the experiment be made..

Do not let fancy outrun your means..

Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped..

Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75..

Hope is an essential constituent of human life..

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I ….

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life..

I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at an….

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live.

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; ….

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance..

He who will not be counseled cannot be helped..

Half the truth is often a great lie..

At a great pennyworth pause a while..

He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas..