We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.

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.

Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.

When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.

Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.

A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.

I think the idea that a society has to be responsible for all of its citizens, those who do well and those who do not, is really a precondition of a good society.

God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.

You can answer your own question. You already know the answer, if you can just gain access to it.

The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.

Sometimes I'm inspired by the material and sometimes there's an idea that speaks to a material.

The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.