"Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."

"All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it."

"It is a timeless truth that kindness is the invisible thread that binds all kindred spirits together — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people."

"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."

"Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication."