The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

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.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.