Capitals accumulate faster than population.

The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavours to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men’s ideas.

Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife.

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

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

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.

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

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

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.

Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.