He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention

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.

In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding - at a distance, through the medium of photography - other people's pain.

Don't worry, " he would say, smiling. "Dying is much more difficult than one imagines.

PHOTOGRAPHY is the best way, where you can SAVE your sweet PAST.

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.

I ride my horses three to four times a week.

Nothing can give you greater joy than doing something for another.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.