"The greatest and most important branch of the commerce of every nation, is that which is carried on between the inhabitants of the town and those of the country. The one furnishes the other with raw m…"

"The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labour."

"The real recompence of labour, the real quantity of the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it can procure to the labourer, has, during the course of the present century, increased in a still …"

"The value of a commodity, or the quantity of any other commodity for which it will exchange, depends on the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command."

"The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence."