Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

The marketplace is democratic.

I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man may be personally ever so well off, and yet if his country be ruined he must be ruined with it; whereas a flourishing commonwealth always affords chances of salvation to unfortunate individuals.

Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.

Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.