The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.

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.

There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.

You don't know now and after and before who has watched you and who is watching you and who will continue doing that.

If you don't hit the target, you're never gonna score

Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories.

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.

My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted.

People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.