Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.

The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.

Supply creates its own demand.

One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.

Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of mankind.

Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.

I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.

The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.

Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?

The truest knowledge is to know thy Creator and thy self.

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

The stories we pretend do not exist, are the stories that will haunt us till the end.

Always make sure to write down whatever you can remember dreaming about. Dreams are just dormant ideas. It's up to you how you use them.

I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

But you love her.” Will stared at him. “Of course I do,” he said finally. “I had come to think I would never love anyone, but I love her.

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

Keep their friends close and their enemies closer.