No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.