Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

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.

Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.

In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

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

The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly.