Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “They will forget which auxiliary lines to draw, and they never have been taught to discover the proofs by themselves.”

That so small an area of land can produce so much wealth is nothing short of astonishing.

Cottons, plain linen, and machine-made lace are now produced at such a low cost by machinery that hand-weaving evidently becomes an anachronism for the plainest descriptions of such goods.

To every house a garden is attached, and none of the misery of big cities is to be seen.

Few books have exercised so pernicious an influence upon the general development of economic thought as Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population exercised for three consecutive generations.