No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which the far greater part...
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery and you lose for certain and...
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence...
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense and for a...
To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness...
Labor was the first price the original purchase - money that was paid for...
Labour was the first price the original purchase - money that was paid for...
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property the...
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Poor David Hume is dying fast but with more real cheerfulness and good humor...
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health out of debt...
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
All money is a matter of belief.
The propensity to truck barter and exchange one thing for another is common...
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that...
Indeed our particular concept of private property which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth favors pollution.