Man is a military animal glories in gunpowder and loves parade.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.