"The poor, in order to obtain the means of subsistence, are obliged to undergo the drudgery and hardships of the meanest employments, and to expose themselves to the greatest dangers, in order to gain …"

"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 desire of food is not to be gratified in order to obtain the regard of other people, but merely in order to appease the appetite."

"Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniencies, and amusements of human life."

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