There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

Every wall is a door.

Enthusiasm is the engine of success.

Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.