Adam Smith

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and…

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all…

Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things…

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords…

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from…

All money is a matter of belief…

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the…

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a…

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out…

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts…

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse…

Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things…

To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise…

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his…

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that…