The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
From Thomas Carlyle
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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