Adam Smith — "The common people are always more afraid of the king, and the nobility, than of …"

"The desire of appearing to be wealthy, may be called the great motive to industry and frugality, and the great cause of the accumulation of capital."

"The learned, however, though they may not be the greatest wits, are always the best company."

"To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit f…"

"The great source of our miseries is the comparison of our own condition with that of others."

"The most important consequences of the division of labour have been, first, the great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of it, the same number of people are capable of performing;…"