An isolated man like Alexander Selkirk might feel the benefit of a stock of provisions, tools and other means of facilitating industry, although cut … - William Stanley Jevons

Have we not hereditary possessions in our just laws, our free and nobly developed constitution, our rich literature and philosophy, incomparably above material wealth, and which we are beyond all things bound to maintain, improve, and hand down in safety? And do we accomplish this duty in encouraging a growth of industry which must prove unstable, and perhaps involve all things in its fall?

There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.

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