"Life is not trying to entertain us, it's trying to teach us."
- Seth Adam Smith
"Commerce and manufactures can seldom flourish long in any state which does not enjoy a regular administration of justice, in which the people do not feel themselves secure in the possession of their p..."
- Adam Smith
"Fear is destructive and defeating, but faith is constructive and creative."
"A highway, a bridge, a navigable canal, for example, may in most cases be both made and maintained by a small toll upon the carriages which make use of them: a harbour, by moderate port-duty upon the ..."
"Only you can decide what you become."
"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."
"We may not be able to control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react."
"What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom."
"All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind."
"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."