Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail

A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written