The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and det….

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches..

In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce; and in the mechanism….

The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market.

In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will alw….

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination..

A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; o….

The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling trade….

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. We address….

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind..

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than ….

An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . hunted out ….

What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?.

Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seem….

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another..

Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods..

In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier p….

A true party-man hates and despises candour..

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessar….

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence..

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all weal….