"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their…"

"The desire of food is not to be gratified in order to obtain the regard of other people, but merely in order to appease the appetite."

"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."

"The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public."

"The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives."