All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Christmas ought to be brought up to date, ” Maria said. “It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.

Creativity is seeing and feeling things in ways people can't imagine or understand.

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.

I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.

This world only brings things apart that come together, and brings things together that weren't together.

It is the way it is. But it is not the way it appears to be. Enlightenment.

You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog.

How many restaurants do we know across the world that customers visit once and once only?

Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.