Adam Smith

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.