Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

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

We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations [that is, unions or colluding organizations] of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor above their actual price.

Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . hunted out of every corner of the world.