Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.

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.

First say to yourself what you would beand then do what you have to do.

GOOD OR BAD MY INTENTION IS FOR THE BETTERMENT.

The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young would-be scientist.

I'm a big fan of the Queen. She carries herself well, as does the Prince of Wales, despite getting lots of stick.

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.

Nothing in life has happened to you, it's happened FOR You!

He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power.