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.

O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

The press is the fourth estate of the realm.