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

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

The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good.

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

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

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