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

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

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.

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

In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity.

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.