Adam Smith

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith

The furious behaviour of any angry man is more likely to exasperate us against himself than against his enemies.

Adam Smith

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

Adam Smith

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

Adam Smith

The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another.

Adam Smith

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

Adam Smith

Wherever there is a great property, there is great inequality.

Adam Smith

A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.

Adam Smith

A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.

Adam Smith

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

Adam Smith