If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the Chancellors of God.

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.