The great affair, we always find, is to get money.

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.

Bella. You were always my soul.

Life is made of the past, present and the future. We're shaped by our past, and we're shaping our future with our present.

The best diet is the one you don't know you're on.

We fear what we don’t know, or whatever seems like a mystery to us.

I pray that the Holy Spirit puts His Words in my mouth, His movement in my heart and His direction in my path.

Man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets.

I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

Tonight will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.