Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.

Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.

The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

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.

Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands?but?he establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.