Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.