I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to be worse paid than the labours of trade and manufactures.

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

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 greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.

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

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!