The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support - the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.

The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population, acting, in some degree, unshackled, from the constant habit of emigration.