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.

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.