Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.