Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

And the stars blinked as they watched her carefully jealous of the way she shone.

At the very end of every struggle comes a precious reward that worth all your blood, sweat and tears.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth.

You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'

You can't climb a tile wall.

We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

Humans are made from nuclear ash of dead stars

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination.