"The value of a commodity, or the quantity of any other commodity for which it will exchange, depends on the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command."

"The most important consequences of the division of labour have been, first, the great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of it, the same number of people are capable of performing;…"

"The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects."

"The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations."

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."