"With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches."

"The desire of building, and the love of distinction, are the passions which give the greatest encouragement to the fine arts."

"The greatest and most important branch of the commerce of every nation, is that which is carried on between the inhabitants of the town and those of the country. The one furnishes the other with raw m…"

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

"The real recompence of labour, the real quantity of the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it can procure to the labourer, has, during the course of the present century, increased in a still …"