For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. - George Santayana

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

There was a distinct class of these gentlemen tramps, young men no longer young, who wouldn't settle down, who disliked polite society and the genteel conventions, but hadn't enough intelligence or enough conceit to think themselves transcendentalists or poets, in the style of Thoreau or of Walt Whitman.