Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.
Only He who made man makes man happy.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
"Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?" "No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of. " "Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.
(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success. )
The industrial revolution fueled all of humanity, everything we do has been exploding ever since. It's been the biggest most impacting thing, not only for human beings in the last 250 million years, but also the planet, which caused the ice age, which buried the forest. It's this circle because of the industrial revolution, it's neither good or bad, it enabled all of modernization, extended our life, it changed everything. It's the most impactful thing that happened to the planet and the people.
Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.