If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause occurring of a diminished demand for commodities, this scantiness of capital would certainly occasion great inconvenience to consumers, and great distress among the working classes; but it would be attended with great advantages to the remaining capitalists.

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

In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.

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

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

A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.

Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife