| 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. | 1 |
| Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity of a man. | 2 |
| Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this. | 3 |
| 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. | 4 |
| Where there is no envy in the case, our propensity to sympathise with joy is much stronger than our propensity to sympathise with sorrow. | 5 | | |
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