I sound like such a tool, but becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I've never felt more empowered.
Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.
I hail with joy- for I am a temperance man and a friend of temperance-I hail with joy the efforts that are being made to raise wine in the country. I believe that when you have everywhere cheap, pure, unadulterated wine, you will no longer have need for either prohibitory or license laws.
The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.
But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present outer reef is the final southern boundary of the North American continent.
The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.
I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a direct intervention on our part that we may remedy the difficulties, but rather by a precise knowledge of their causes, which may enable us, if not to check, at least to avoid the evil consequences.
You're a very odd man," said Bert. "I get that more often than you'd think," replied Charles.
If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face, it's a victory.
The free world has need that its foreign policies should fairly measure the realities of the world in which we live. There are certain principles to which we hold: the sanctity of treaties, good faith between nations, the interdependence of peoples from which no country, however powerful, can altogether escape.
Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.