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

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!

THERE is scarcely any inquiry more curious, or, from its importance, more worthy of attention, than that which traces the causes which practically check the progress of wealth in different countries, and stop it, or make it proceed very slowly, while the power of production remains comparatively undiminished, or at least would furnish the means of a great and abundant increase of produce and population.