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

The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to improve and beautify their grounds, and to employ workmen and menial servants, are the means most within our power and most directly calculated to remedy the evils arising from that disturbance in the balance of produce and consumption.

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 most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.

Man cannot live in the midst of plenty.

The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good.