True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.
To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.