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

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.

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

The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.

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.

With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.