Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.

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 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 finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavours to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.

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

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.