The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.
Adam SmithThe cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.
Adam SmithThe 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.
Adam SmithNo society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith