"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 prudent man is always concerned with his own interest, but he is not always selfish. He is often benevolent, and he is always just."

"The greatest fault of the rich is that they are less sensible of the wants of the poor than the poor are of the wants of the rich."

"The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country, or what comes to the same thing, the whole price of that annual produce, naturally divides itself, as has already been observed, into …"

"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."