It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties; after this new distribution of goods has taken place, are not better off than they were before.

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

The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present neccessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.

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

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

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!