Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

The fact that Iam writing to youin Englishalready falsifies what Iwanted to tell you.My subject:how to explain to youthat I don't belong to Englishthough I belong nowhere else, if not herein English.

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

Say, Nana... You look like stray cat, wild and proud. But I can see the wound in your heart. At the time I just thought it was cool. I never realized how hurt you were.

Anything a man can do, I can fix.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

Obviously I've taken drugs.

I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

It is an active flame that fliesFirst to the babies in the eyes.