The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

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

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

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.

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.

In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.

It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.