People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.