But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

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

A sketch of a man facing to the right.

It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.

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

He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention