Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, is consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it.

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

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

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

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

The great affair, we always find, is to get money.

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.