Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

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.

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.

I asked you to marry me – and you laughed. You thought I was joking. In fairness, I was still dressed as a Cavalier.

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.

God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him

As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.

We just couldn't hit shots. We had good looks but they weren't falling and we kept turning the ball over.

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.

If you're a Christian how do you deal with stress without Jesus? You don't.