By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?

The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.

The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.