Forgiveness is not a matter of who is right or wrong. It is a matter of doing the right thing.
It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.
Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.
The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.
The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.
The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.
We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.
Even when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob them, mayors, police chiefs and the media tiptoe around their racism and many in the media either don't cover these stories or leave out the race and racism involved.