The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.