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

It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.

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

Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.