Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year.

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

Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.

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

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics.

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