The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.

Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.