1. “Humanity is the virtue of woman, generosity that of a man.”
2. “The great affair, we always find, is to get money.”
3. “Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.”
4. “Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.”
5. “Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.”
6. “The important o gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.”
7. “Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.”
8. “There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.”
9. “Whenever there is great property, there is great inequality.”
10. “The great secret of education i to direct vanity to proper objects.”
11. “All money is a matter of belief.”
12. “Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.”
13. “Every man lives by exchanging.”
14. “Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.”
15. “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”
16. “Virtue is more to be feared than ice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”
17. “We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.”
18. “Defence is superior to opulence.”
19. “Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.”
20. “Man, an animal that makes bargains.”
21. “Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself”
22. “Goods can serve many other purpose besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.”
23. “Secrets in manufacturers are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.”
24. “Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
25. “An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.”
26. “Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.”
27. “It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.”
28. “All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.”
29. “Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.”
30. “The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.”
