The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,--the every-day world's people themselves, far transcend those inferior Transcendentalists by their own incomprehensible worldly maxims.

Great towers take time to construct.

Only the man who says no is free

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.

Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.

For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.