Until my father brought me into Reliance, I was pretty sure that I wanted to study in a U.S. university: hopefully, a little bit of time, either work at the World Bank or teach as a professor.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstone of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might have lain forever undiscovered

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.