Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.