From thence I expect to go to England, where I shall probably continue two or three years.

How advantageous this business will eventually prove to me, I cannot say.

It is generally said by those who know anything about it, that I shall make a Fortune by it.

I have no expectation that I shall make an independent fortune by it, but think I had better pursue it than any other business into which I can enter.

Something which cannot be foreseen may frustrate my expectations and defeat my Plan; but I am now so sure of success that ten thousand dollars, if I saw the money counted out to me, would not tempt me to give up my right and relinquish the object.