It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.

It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.

Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

Capitals accumulate faster than population

To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.

It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties; after this new distribution of goods has taken place, are not better off than they were before.

It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.