Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.