Nassau William Senior

“The evils of which we have been speaking are not the effects of the Poor Laws, but of their abuse.”

“Rent is the effect of the monopoly of a natural agent.”

“To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will.”

“The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.”

“The possession of wealth, and the desire to obtain it, are, of all the passions, the most universal.”

“The desire for distinction is one of the most powerful of human motives.”

“No man is so acutely sensible of the evils of procrastination as he who has been its most diligent practitioner.”