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

The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.

The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.

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

I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour.

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

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.