Were you thinking about eating me?
By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound
It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit.
Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.
Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
When we're connected to others, we become better people.
Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.