"The most sacred laws of justice, therefore, are those which guard the life and person of our neighbour; the next are those which guard his property and possessions; and last of all come those which gu…"

"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."

"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."

"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 …"

"The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects o…"