Man Is An Animal That Makes Bargains:

To Hinder, Besides, The Farmer From Selling His Goods At All Times To The Best Market, Is Evidently To Sacrifice The Ordinary Laws Of Justice To An Idea Of Public Utility, To A Sort Of Reasons Of State; An Act Of Legislative Authority Which Ought To Be Exercised Only, Which Can Be Pardoned Only In Cases Of The Most Urgent Necessity.

No Society Can Surely Be Flourishing And Happy, Of Which The Far Greater Part Of The Members Are Poor And Miserable.

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 Machines That Are First Invented To Perform Any Particular Movement Are Always The Most Complex, And Succeeding Artists Generally Discover That, With Fewer Wheels, With Fewer Principles Of Motion, Than Had Originally Been Employed, The Same Effects May Be More Easily Produced. The First Systems, In The Same Manner, Are Always The Most Complex.

The Retinue Of A Grandee In China Or Indostan Accordingly Is, By All Accounts, Much More Numerous And Splendid Than That Of The Richest Subjects Of Europe.