Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.

The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.

Supply creates its own demand.

One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.

Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of mankind.

Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.

I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.

Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.

The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.

I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.

Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life’s few pleasures.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.

You cannot hide the soul.

"Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.