Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.

Let the experiment be made.

Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshiped. That the most acceptable service we render him is doing good to his other children. That the soul of Man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.

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

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.