I once made a pipe out of pipe stone. It got stolen from me. I hand carved it from the stone myself and glazed it with bees wax. Every time you would smoke from it the wax would soak into the stone more and you coat it again till it was as shiny as one of those Briar wood, or rose wood bowls.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe