"The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful obser…"

"With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situati…"

"Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice!"

"Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation."

"What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks?"

"It is, perhaps, a well founded objection to Mr. Ricardo, that he sometimes reasons upon abstract principles to which …"

"How many other opinions, as universally prevailing and as much respected, will in like manner pass away?"

"The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some co…"

"But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?"

"A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly d…"