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 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.

I can't change yesterday, but I can sure mess up today.

Talent is never enough. Effort, not talent, is the key to success.

Do great things, Laure, be happy, or at least do your best to be. Life is fragile

I have never believed in the impossible.

Rail is such an undignified way to travel. All that rapid racing about. Floating has so much more gravitas.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

I know other worlds exist. I can see them in my peripheral vision.

The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game.

Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.

Whatever it is you love, and whatever it is that you want to do, that's what you should be doing.