What can be added to the happiness of man who is in health out of debt and has a clear conscience?

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.

Rise up & attack the day with Passion. The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it.

Silence. There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction.

And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful, is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself!

As long as I fear my weakness, I am stronger than when I trust my strength.

Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me.

The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.

In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.

Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.