It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he did before, without proportionably depressing others in the same class.

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

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

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

Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the diminution of capital. Every reduction of capital is therefore necessarily followed by a less effective demand for corn, by a fall in price, and by a diminished cultivation.

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

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.