Dandyism is a species of genius.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).

I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of things from books or from their senses. Ignorance has so far the advantage over learning; for it can make an appeal to you from what you know; but you cannot re-act upon it through that which it is a perfect stranger to. Ignorance is, therefore, power.

Malice often takes the garb of truth.