Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

Men of the most robust make, observe that in looking upon sore eyes they often feel a very sensible soreness in their own, which proceeds from the same reason; that organ being in the strongest man more delicate, than any other part of the body is in the weakest.

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.

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.