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In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.
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Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.
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It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today.
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Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.
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Plant trees, Lots of trees
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If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.
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God did not plant the seeds of this Arcadia. I did.
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Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.
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It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.
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If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.
