Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.

Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

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

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.