It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If Julian had flattered himself that his personal connexion with the capital of the East would be productive of mutual satisfaction to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Land of Israel will be small, but the people of Israel will make it great. Not in opulence, but in eminence… — Abba Hillel Silver Copy Share Image
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
