I Have No Faith In Political Arithmetic.

The Value Of Any Commodity, Therefore, To The Person Who Possesses It, And Who Means Not To Use Or Consume It Himself, But To Exchange It For Other Commodities, Is Equal To The Quantity Of Labour Which It Enables Him To Purchase Or Command. Labour, Therefore, Is The Real Measure Of The Exchangeable Value Of All Commodities. The Real Price Of Everything, What Everything Really Costs To The Man Who Wants To Acquire It, Is The Toil And Trouble Of Acquiring It.

The Theory That Can Absorb The Greatest Number Of Facts, And Persist In Doing So, Generation After Generation, Through All Changes Of Opinion And Detail, Is The One That Must Rule All Observation.

The Machines That Are First Invented To Perform Any Particular Movement Are Always The Most Complex, And Succeeding Artists Generally Discover That, With Fewer Wheels, With Fewer Principles Of Motion, Than Had Originally Been Employed, The Same Effects May Be More Easily Produced. The First Systems, In The Same Manner, Are Always The Most Complex.

Masters Are Always And Everywhere In A Sort Of Tacit, But Constant And Uniform Combination, Not To Raise The Wages Of Labor.

To Feel Much For Others And Little For Ourselves, That To Restrain Our Selfish, And To Indulge Our Benevolent Affections, Constitutes The Perfection Of Human Nature.