Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing others down to its own level.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

Trade is a social act.

If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.

The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.