By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound

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.

The man who is receiving the money is getting rich and the guy who is giving the money is getting poorer

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative.

The more you believe, the more you doubt. The more you doubt, the more you ask questions. Knowing that questions left unanswered is the best proof for your belief.

When you wish to talk to someone, talk to Jesus, He loves to hear you speak.

Jesus never spoke of truth in abstraction, as something that stands alone. Jesus always spoke of truth in relation to God being revealed through himself.

Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.

The road to being somebody in this society starts with education.

I still support the right of local communities to make up their own minds about whether or not they want to permit fracking.

It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.