Men Desire To Have Some Share In

The Great Secret Of Education Is To Direct Vanity To Proper Objects.

Every Individual Necessarily Labors To Render The Annual Revenue Of Society As Great As He Can. He Generally Neither Intends To Promote The Public Interest, Nor Knows How Much He Is Promoting It. He Intends Only His Own Gain, And He Is, In This, As In Many Other Cases, Led By An Invisible Hand To Promote An End Which Was Not Part Of His Intention.

Labour Was The First Price, The Original Purchase - Money That Was Paid For All Things. It Was Not By Gold Or By Silver, But By Labour, That All Wealth Of The World Was Originally Purchased.

In Public, As Well As In Private Expences, Great Wealth May, Perhaps, Frequently Be Admitted As An Apology For Great Folly.

In Raising The Price Of Commodities, The Rise Of Wages Operates In The Same Manner As Simple Interest Does In The Accumulation Of Debt. Our Merchants And Master Manufacturers Complain Much Of The Bad Effects Of High Wages In Raising The Price, And Thereby Lessening The Sale Of Their Goods, Both At Home And Abroad. They Say Nothing Concerning The Bad Effects Of High Profits; They Are Silent With Regard To The Pernicious Effects Of Their Own Gains. They Complain Only Of Those Of Other People.