Pastoral Resources

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.

It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.

A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.

Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.