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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
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"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
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"The proper study of mankind is woman."
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"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."
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"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
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"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
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"It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all."
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"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
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"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
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"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
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"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."
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"No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever."
Earth
"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."
Power
"I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food."
Food
"In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known."
Equality
"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil."
Virtue
"The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor."
Poor
"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."
Experience
"Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio."
Population
"The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes."
Man
"It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment."
Truth
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