Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition..

That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries..

To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection ….

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom..

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it..

Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will empl….

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man..

An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one..

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in ….

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or ….

In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly..

The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, ….

Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to ….

The great affair, we always find, is to get money..

Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, ….

It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver..

As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ou….

The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion ….

It would be too ridiculous to go about seriously to prove that wealth does not consist in money, or in gold and silver; but in what money purchases, ….

Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, ….

That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of op….