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

When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion bankruptcy; the main cause of their error was the natural one, of not being able to see the vast increase of productive power to which the nation would subsequently obtain.

The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present neccessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.

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.

Capitals accumulate faster than population

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!