Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

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.

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

Rare benevolence, the minister of God.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.