"The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune."

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

"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."

"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…"

"The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects o…"