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

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.

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

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

I have concluded that the more we seek the Lord, with a passion for His worthiness, the more we are gripped with our neediness. Adoration cultivates desperation.

The third gift is Courage. May you speak and act with confidence and use courage to follow your own path.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue

I'd really want to - just from my own experience as an artist working with a writer, I'd want to do everything I could to tailor it to the artist I was working with.

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?

But I'll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren't properly dressed without them.

An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.

I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.