“There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.”

“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”

“In inquiries respecting the laws of the world and the frame of things, the highest reason is always the truest.”

“The sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.”

“Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.”

“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”

“That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street, carried to the duke's house, washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been insane, owes its popularity to the fact, that it symbolizes so well the state of man, who is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then wakes up, exercises his reason, and finds himself a true prince.”