Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.