"The utility of many useful things is not at first very manifest, — as poetry, for instance. Yet its uses are as many …"

"Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it."

"Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the q…"

"One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has…"

"Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility."

"The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour."

"My principal work now lies in tracing out the exact nature and conditions of utility. It seems strange indeed that ec…"

"The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility."

"The general theory of economic equilibrium was strengthened and made effective as an organon of thought by two powerf…"

"No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one ma…"