O Poor Mortals, How Ye Make This

Good Breeding Differs, If At All, From High Breeding Only As It Gracefully Remembers The Rights Of Others, Rather Than Gracefully Insists On Its Own Rights.

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.

The Universe Is But One Vast Symbol Of God.

If Time Is Precious, No Book That Will Not Improve By Repeated Readings Deserves To Be Read At All.

It Is A Vain Hope To Make People Happy By Politics.