For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.

Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.

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

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.

A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.