The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.

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

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support - the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.

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.

It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.