In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for advancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and the propagation of the species.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we can still take pleasure in reading it to a companion. To him it has all the graces of novelty.

It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.

As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.