"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 great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects."

"The interest of the landlord is always, more or less, connected with the general interest of the society."

"Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which h…"

"The expense of the institutions for education, therefore, may no doubt afford a revenue sufficient for defraying their own expense, and for rewarding a few of the more eminent teachers."