It Is Not For Its Own Sake

The Annual Produce Of The Land And Labour Of Any Nation Can Be Increased In Its Value By No Other Means, But By Increasing Either The Number Of Its Productive Labourers, Or The Productive Powers Of Those Labourers Who Had Before Been Employed.

Science Is The Great Antidote To The Poison Of Enthusiasm And Superstition.

Upstart Greatness Is Everywhere Less Respected Than Ancient Greatness.

It Is The Highest Impertinence And Presumption, Therefore, In Kings And Ministers To Pretend To Watch Over The Economy Of Private People, And To Restrain Their Expense. They Are Themselves, Always, And Without Any Exception, The Greatest Spendthrifts In The Society.

That Wealth And Greatness Are Often Regarded With The Respect And Admiration Which Are Due Only To Wisdom And Virtue; And That The Contempt, Of Which Vice And Folly Are The Only Proper Objects, Is Most Often Unjustly Bestowed Upon Poverty And Weakness, Has Been The Complaint Of Moralists In All Ages.