"The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution."

"The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable."

"To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit f…"

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

"The prudent man is always concerned with his own interest, but he is not always selfish. He is often benevolent, and he is always just."