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 spiritual is the parent of the practical.

I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

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