Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win i…

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

But nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

My story ends here. It is a fairly trivial story, and I can only hope that it has been interesting in the same way as a trivial diary is interesting. ... At pr…

In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest-usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation-and in a family of peasants, wh…