Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
Category Archive: April 14
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.