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

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause occurring of a diminished demand for commodities, this scantiness of capital would certainly occasion great inconvenience to consumers, and great distress among the working classes; but it would be attended with great advantages to the remaining capitalists.

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

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.

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.