Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

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.

When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain.

The truth may hurt but lies kill.

He knocks on doors and stands there. You’d be surprised how few doors get answered

I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.

The Scarehouse is like Turkey Soap. The Girl House is better as a film!

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

A zero itself is nothing, but without a zero you cannot count anything; therefore, a zero is something, yet zero.

I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own.

The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

You truly do reap what you sow, so that makes it so important for us to learn to love each other in the here and now.