The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

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

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Every individual... neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it... he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

Heaven does not create one person above or below another.

-- Born 1835

I shall run wild for six months to a year, but I have utterly no confidence for the second and third years.

-- Isoroku Yamamoto

子供には物を与えるな、苦労をさせよ

-- Nogi Maresuke

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

-- Victor Hugo

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

-- Joan Robinson

Any general character, from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to the most enlightened, may be given to any community, even to the world at large, by the application of proper means.

-- Robert Owen