The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!