Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.

There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.

Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

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.