Certainty is foolish ---- It’s not what we don’t know that gets us in trouble. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.

Certainty is impossible — we see through a glass, darkly.

Certainty is an absurd one.

Certainty is dangerous — Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Excitement is really just jealousy of your future self.

Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom.

Excitement is not enjoyment : In calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

Excitement is a state which sometimes prevents genuine happiness.

Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.

Fashion is always about sex — it is not what you wear, it is how you take it off

Fashion is important — A bird is known by its feathers.

Fashion is not about clothing alone — we are taught to clothe our minds, as we do our bodies, after the fashion in vogue; and it is accounted fantastical, or something worse, not to do so.