"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 desire of riches, and the contempt of poverty, are the great and most universal causes of corruption of morals."

"The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labour."

"The labour of the manufacturer fixes and realizes itself in some particular subject or vendible commodity, which lasts for some time at least after that labour is past. The labour of the menial servan…"

"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…"