It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle classes of society efficient in the demand for material products.

The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.

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.

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!

In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

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