The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things i… - Jean-Baptiste Say

The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price.

All travellers agree that protestant are both richer and more populous than catholic countries;and the reason is, because the habits of the former are more conducive to production.

The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others, wretched hovels by the side of stately colonnades, the rags of indigence blended with the ensigns of opulence; in a word, the most useless profusion in the midst of the most urgent wants.