The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.

The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.

The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

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

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