What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.

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

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

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