The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.

It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he did before, without proportionably depressing others in the same class.

The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a force that varies merely in the inverse ratio of the squares of the distances.

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

It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

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.