Quotes by Adam Smith

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

#Happiness

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out...

#Happiness

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and...

#Humor

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all...

#Money

No complaint ... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

#Money

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog...

#Animals, #Business

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise...

#Benevolence, #Mankind

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his...

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all...

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a...

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley...

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