The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this di… - Jean-Baptiste Say

Capital can seldom be made productive, without undergoing several changes both of form and of place, the risk of which is always more or less alarming to persons unaccustomed to the operations of industry; whereas, on the contrary, landed property produces without any change of either quality or position.

A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?