Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.

Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

If the United States doesn't lead then evil triumphs

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.

Passion is born when your heart gets carried away with a purpose greater than yourself.

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!