“I know very well the women. The short skirt was never a good fashion — very vulgar. The American women will accept the new fashions. You can never stop the fashions.”

A Practical Discourse on some Priciples of Hymn-singing Collected Essays no 22.
Essays

Les hivers sont pour les femmes à la mode ce que fut jadis une campagne pour les militaires de l’empire.
La Fausse Maîtresse http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Fausse_Ma%C3%AEtresse (1842), translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, ch. II.

Excerpts from a speech to the Christian Youth Conference in Suva, 15 May 2005

Act III, scene 3.
The Elder Brother (c. 1625; published 1637)

Source: The Fall of the Hotel Dumort

"Homo Sum." Being a Letter to an Anti-Suffragist from an Anthropologist, 1900, p. 30 https://archive.org/details/homosumbeinglett00harruoft/page/30

Source: Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science (1938), p. 146
Context: Fashion as king is sometimes a very stupid ruler. As was observed a little way back, the kernel of Plücker's theory of geometric dimensionality is that the dimensionality of a given space is not an absolute constant, but depends upon the elements, accepted as irreducible, in terms of which the space is described.

"George II".
Four Georges (1860-1861)
Source: Four Georges and the English Humourists