All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

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.

What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.

I love dressing up. It's the best part of being a girl, I think.

The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

What created your outer is your inner

When the facts change, I change my mind.

I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole.

The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

And the first thing we have to do is vote. Hey, no, not just once in a while. Not just when my husband or somebody you like is on the ballot. But in every election at every level, all of the time.

I can be really annoying, but I also feel like I'm a nice person.