All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.

In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with with those of the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements.