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

Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural liberty of a few ….

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 ….

Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that….

It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that per….

This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is ….

By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience..

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render th….

Have lots of experiments, but make sure they're strategically focused..

In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate..

As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureau….

A true party-man hates and despises candour..

Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force..

The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, capable not only of c….

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

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….

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent..

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 proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country..

Both ground- rents and the ordinary rent of land are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without any care or attention of his….