If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.