Getting it done is my reward.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.

The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.

The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.

When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.