Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.

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.

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.