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

To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works have sold, would be but a poor measure of the degree in which they have elevated and enchanted their country; nor would it be less grovelling and incongruous to estimate the benefit which the country has derived from the Revolution of 1688, by the pay of the soldiers, and all other payments concerned in effecting it.

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

The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.

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.

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

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