A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good.

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

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.

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!

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

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.