Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.