Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

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.

Now I know that anytime you see a “no trespassing” sign, it means you’ve got to go in and take a look.

Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.

She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation.

Now I know that I don't have to go after every batter with the hardest pitch I've got.

It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.

I'm not an expert in typefaces that serve scientific writing, but I'd guess that's another dozen or two.

My heart and prayers go out to every individual

To philosophize is to doubt.

A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV