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

The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.

The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.

The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.

Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.