Nature herself in times of great poverty or bad climatic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of population of certain countries or races; this, to be sure, by a method as wise as it is ruthless.

In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.

If it be taught that all who are born have a right to support on the land, whatever be their number, and that there is no occasion to exercise any prudence in the affair of marriage so as to check this number, the temptations, according to all the known principles of human nature, will inevitably be yielded to, and more and more will gradually become dependent on parish assistance.

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

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

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

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.