Words That Changed the World

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised—the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.

They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of Abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its e...

Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.

We delight in the beauty of butterfly, rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty*

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.