The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.

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.

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

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

Well, some men learn by listening, some read, some observe and analyze — and some of us just have to pee on the electric fence.

What is love after but trusting in the unknown.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

Nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally.

[Donald Trump] hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians.

One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.