The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.

Supply creates its own demand.

One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.

Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of mankind.

Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.

I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.

Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.

The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.

Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.

I think the desire to reject elites, to retreat within more comfortable geographic and personal borders and to lash out at political correctness is not a phenomenon unique to Britain or the US.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

Our tongues, fluent in lover's kiss.

In the hierarchy of the family, I'm just above the dog. But I like it that way.

The duality of St Petersburg and Leningrad remains. They are not even on speaking terms.

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

I think the homeless thing is very interesting and I think is an incredible exercise.