The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.

So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another

True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it. True humanity appertains rather to the mind than to the nerves, and prompts men to use real and active endeavors to execute the actions which it suggests.

In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.

All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body.

We who have been ahead in STYLE have usually been also ahead in our thinking.

The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.