"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
"Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by."
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Source: Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Lulu.com
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