Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
Adam SmithAn instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
Adam SmithThe principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.
Adam SmithA man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.
Adam Smith