Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

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.

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.