Chesterton on birth control/population control: In 1925 Chesterton wrote an introduction to Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol in which he said that The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him, whether he is part of the surplus population; or if not, how he knows he is not.
One of my favorite poems is The Donkey. As well as reinforcing the value of every life, it makes for a great Lenten/Palm Sunday meditation.