The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

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.

The exertions that men find it necessary to make, in order to support themselves or families, frequently awaken faculties that might otherwise have lain for ever dormant, and it has been commonly remarked that new and extraordinary situations generally create minds adequate to grapple with the difficulties in which they are involved.

The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present neccessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.

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

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

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!