The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.

Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.

There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.