Adam Smith

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt and has a clear conscience?
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 wealth of the world was originally purchased
All money is a matter of belief
Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness
No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience
A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it’s people
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature
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
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
Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity
Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods
Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it
Every man lives by exchanging
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good
When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than befor
Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind
This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and powerful, and to despise or, at least, neglect persons of poor and mean conditions, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity
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
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition
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 administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things
Defense is superior to opulence
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 their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it
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, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them
Society and conversation, therefore, are the most powerful remedies for restoring the mind to its tranquillity
Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality
In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest
It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion
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 some contrivance to raise prices
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 necessary for promoting that of the consumer

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