He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others