I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour.

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.

Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?.

With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.

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