“To attempt to increase the wealth of any country, either by introducing or by detaining in it an unnecessary quantity of gold and silver, is as absurd as it would be to attempt to increase the good cheer of private families by obliging them to keep an unnecessary number of kitchen utensils.”

“What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.”

“I have learned that I always feel happier and healthier when I offer genuine love to other people.”

“When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.”

“We can achieve the fullest measure of life by living it for others.”

“Abundance in life is achieved only when we tear down walls and fill our lives with light.”

“I have seen the light in the wilderness and I must follow it.”

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

“As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.”

“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”

“No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.”