Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.

In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Change, change,--we all covet change.