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.

It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle classes of society efficient in the demand for material products.

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

Man cannot live in the midst of plenty.

If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!

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.

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.