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

- Arthur Young

Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and s…

- Arthur Young

The magic of property turns sand to gold.

- Arthur Young

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 purpo…

- Arthur Young

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

- Arthur Young

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

- Arthur Young

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

- Arthur Young

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

- Arthur Young

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

- Arthur Young