James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.
Adam Smith
A miser is as furious about a halfpenny as the man of ambition about the conquest of a kingdom.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity of a man.
Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this.
Resentment seems to have been given us by Nature for defence, and for defence only; it is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
Where there is no envy in the case, our propensity to sympathise with joy is much stronger than our propensity to sympathise with sorrow.