He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

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.

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.