On Clothing

"The finest clothing made is a person's skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this." - Mark Twain


"If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it." - Albert Einstein


"I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes." - Robert A. Heinlein


"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes." - Henry David Thoreau


"Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!" - Herman Melville