I am a beau in nothing but my books.

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.

No, I would not say that assault with a baseball bat constitutes "justice being done.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.

I certainly never saw myself as posh.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.

All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Writing is a form of mischief.

I daydreamed that when you grow up there are more bullies and how wonderful that would be if it were true, but, it's not.