ARTHUR YOUNG

Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

The purpose creates the machine.

A wandering family [in Ireland] will fix themselves under a dry bank and with a few sticks, furze, fern, etc,, make up a hovel much worse than an English pigsty, and support themselves how they can by work, begging, and stealing.

Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

The magic of property turns sand to gold

The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else.

Banishment from court alone will force the French nobility to execute what the English do for pleasure—reside upon and adorn their estates.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

The purpose creates the machine.

Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

The magic of property turns sand to gold

Banishment from court alone will force the French nobility to execute what the English do for pleasure—reside upon and adorn their estates.

I sincerely regret the loss of that set of men who are called yeomen ... who really kept up the independence of the nation, and I am loth to see their lands now in the hands of monopolizing lords.

The streets are very narrow, and many of them crowded, nine tenths dirty, and all without foot pavements. Walking, which in London is so pleasant and so clean that ladies do it every day, is here a toil and a fatigue to a man, and an impossibility to a well-dressed woman.

A wandering family [in Ireland] will fix themselves under a dry bank and with a few sticks, furze, fern, etc,, make up a hovel much worse than an English pigsty, and support themselves how they can by work, begging, and stealing.

The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else.

Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and speculative licentiousness, not one writer of talent has been employed to refute and confound the fashionable doctrines, nor the least care taken to disseminate works of another complexion.

Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.