Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.