Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?.

The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils to which society is subject, to human institutions and the iniquity of governments.

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.

The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.

Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase of food may be compared to a great reservoir of water, supplied by a moderate stream. The faster population increases, the more help will be got to draw off the water, and consequently an increasing quantity will be taken every year. But the sooner, undoubtedly, will the reservoir be exhausted, and the streams only remain.

It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.

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.