No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

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

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

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

The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.

The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.