"The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exe…"

"The love of praise, and the dread of blame, are, in a great measure, the springs of our activity."

"The learned, however, though they may not be the greatest wits, are always the best company."

"The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever."

"The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution."