But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about.

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 believe that each of our lives has a purpose. You have something to do that is unique to you.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like.

I want to be as self-reliant as possible and do it all from within.

It’s easy to be yourself in the dark.

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

I'm the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids.

To hold a testimony, one must bear it often and live worthy of it.

You know that failure prelude to being the victim of what is criminally wrong.