The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th century.

The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.