The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.

Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

The king is the man who can.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.