"The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations."

"The most opulent nations, indeed, generally excel all their neighbours in agriculture as well as in manufactures; but they are to be envied, not on account of their opulence, but on account of their f…"

"It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion."

"The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever."

"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…"