"The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exe…"

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

"The attention of the public is always much more forcibly attracted by the vices and follies of the great, than by their virtues and their wisdom."

"The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour whic…"

"The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education."