“The law is not justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law is, and for my money it's a good deal better than the next best thing, which is no law at all.”

“The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”