Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence..

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens..

There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people..

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer..

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abili….

When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we can still take pleasure in reading ….

We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike th….

Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did and neve….

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are….

The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilit….

The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese ha….

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere dir….

The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from….

Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulat….

Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten ti….

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administ….

Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance ….

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity..

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it..

Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any….

A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures. The monopolists, by keep….