People Of The Same Trade Seldom Meet

It Is The Interest Of Every Man To Live As Much At His Ease As He Can; And If His Emoluments Are To Be Precisely The Same, Whether He Does Or Does Not Perform Some Very Laborious Duty, It Is Certainly His Interest, At Least As Interest Is Vulgarly Understood, Either To Neglect It Altogether, Or, If He Is Subject To Some Authority Which Will Not Suffer Him To Do This, To Perform It In As Careless And Slovenly A Manner As That Authority Will Permit.

The Propensity To Truck, Barter And Exchange One Thing For Another Is Common To All Men, And To Be Found In No Other Race Of Animals.

That The Chance Of Gain Is Naturally Over-valued, We May Learn From The Universal Success Of Lotteries.

There Is No Art Which Government Sooner Learns Of Another Than That Of Draining Money From The Pockets Of The People.

The Real Price Of Everything, What Everything Really Costs To The Man Who Wants To Acquire It, Is The Toil And Trouble Of Acquiring It.