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.

Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year.

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

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.

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

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

If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to think that he was blind or uncivil. A juster philosophy might teach me rather to think that my eyes deceived me, and that the offer was not really what I conceived it to be.