No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.

The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.

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.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

Society is founded upon Cloth.

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.