The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

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

The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils to which society is subject, to human institutions and the iniquity of governments.

In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.