An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
How happy he who crowns in shades like these, / A youth of labour with an age of ease.