The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.

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

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

Man cannot live in the midst of plenty.

It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.

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.