We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations [that is, unions or colluding organizations] of masters, though frequently of those of workmen.….

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

Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity..

Men of the most robust make, observe that in looking upon sore eyes they often feel a very sensible soreness in their own, which proceeds from the sa….

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things..

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production..

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….

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….

But avarice and ambition in the rich, in the poor the hatred of labour and the love of present ease and enjoyment, are the passions which prompt to i….

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

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money..

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 ….

The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consu….

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

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

In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small ….

The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is s….

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals..

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse..

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life..

The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal pl….