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.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.