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.

To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface.

To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.

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

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

Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the diminution of capital. Every reduction of capital is therefore necessarily followed by a less effective demand for corn, by a fall in price, and by a diminished cultivation.