In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.

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

Both ground- rents and the ordinary rent of land are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without any care or attention of his own. The annual produce of the land and labour of the society, the real wealth and revenue of the great body of the people, might be the same after such a tax as before. Ground-rents, and the ordinary rent of land are, therefore, perhaps the species of revenue which can best bear to have a peculiar tax imposed upon them.

Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back

The game women play is men.

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.