It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

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

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

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.

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

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

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife

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

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

One failure teaches you ten ways to success.

What are you? The pregnant MacGyver?” “Best compliment I’ve had in a while.

If the Best is yet to come, the Present will blend with it Beautifully.

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

Humility may bring you humiliation here on earth, but surely not in heaven.

I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same.

I love mixing up my genres.