To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence.

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.

We had the experience but missed the meaning, an approach to the meaning restores the experience

But this is your home''Not any longer, my poppet. Women make nests but men make bequests and scatter them. Heigh-ho!

Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.

Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.

My nickname is The Fonz. My sister Lori nicknamed me it when I was younger and it stuck.

But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

Next to God, thy parents.