The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. - William Hazlitt

But fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath — tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labour in it, but they labour in it because they excel.