Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
  Beyond the Mexique Bay.

The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
Grey Eminence, ch.10.

Population, when unchecked, increases in geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in arithmetical ratio.

-Malthus,Thomas Robert
  An Essay on the Principle of Population.