When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.

Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.

Every man lives by exchanging.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

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

But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about.