A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.

No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that the world has existed.

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly.

The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support - the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.

Capitals accumulate faster than population

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.