Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.

The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.

The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain of it, is to lament over the necessary effect and cause of the greatest public prosperity.