Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my wor…

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man. You may raise money enough to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is …

Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man.

And, far and near, through vale and hill, Are faces that attest the same, And kindle like a fire new stirr'd, At sound of Rob Roy's name.

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.