“He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.”

An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . Hunted out of every corner of the world.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.

A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

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.

Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it’s people.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.

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.

A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.

The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

We’re reaching for death on the end of a candle We’re trying for something that’s already found us

Time is not on our side it never has been and I know this storm seems to never end but its coming our time is coming.

Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?

Music is your only friend until the end…

Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.