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It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

Nassau William Senior

Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and to suggest means by which its advancement may be accelerated, but also to warn the reader of the nature of the following Treatise.

Nassau William Senior

That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.

Nassau William Senior

Wealth

May

Production

This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me.

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.

You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last.

If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.

I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.

Pete Seeger

May

Present

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

Charles de Secondat

Life

May

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!