“Poverty therefore, is a thing created by that which is called civilized life.”
“the condition of every person born into the world, after a state of civilization commences, ought not to be worse than if he had been born before that period”
“It is impossible to enjoy affluence with the felicity it is capable of being enjoyed, whilst so much misery is mingled in the scene.”
“the accumulation of personal property is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labour that produced it”
“Death and taxes? Death and taxes? What an odd pairing.” – Joe Black