Man cannot live in the midst of plenty.

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.

No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that the world has existed.

Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife

The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to improve and beautify their grounds, and to employ workmen and menial servants, are the means most within our power and most directly calculated to remedy the evils arising from that disturbance in the balance of produce and consumption.

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.