If it be taught that all who are born have a right to support on the land, whatever be their number, and that there is no occasion to exercise any prudence in the affair of marriage so as to check this number, the temptations, according to all the known principles of human nature, will inevitably be yielded to, and more and more will gradually become dependent on parish assistance.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

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.

A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.

In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.

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

The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.