The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm.

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.

If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place!

Having fun is a pretty powerful way to start any serious relationship.

I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

I was never a topical songwriter.

It's not the victories that count to me. It's the quality of how you deliver your losses and the quality of how you deliver your victories.

Every woman, whoever she is, wherever she lives, should be able to give birth without the fear she's going to lose her baby or that her baby will lose her mother.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.

I really don't look at my life as being an accomplishment. I'm just very thankful for what I've been given.

The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.