The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.

Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

It hurt me, and pained my very heart, that any body should show me any respect. Alas! methought, how sadly they are deceived in me! how miserably would they be disappointed, if they knew my inside! Oh my heart!

Before dehumanizing a population, we set them apart as a "race." That is, a variety of people who are fundamentally different from "us." The folk notion of race is very much an artificial construction.

Worship: Where God isn't moved by the quality of our voice but by the condition of our hearts.

You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.

Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong!

David was the last one we would have chosen to fight the giant, but he was chosen of God.