Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.