The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

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.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

I may not have had a great background, but I am grateful because nothing could have prepared me for the future than the past I've been through.

He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.

Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.

Anything is possible with sunshine and a little pink.

I'm a grandfather now.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

I didn't eat pork either. Except bacon, of course. Everyone eats bacon.

I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.