In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.

The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. In an industrial community this propensity for emulation expresses itself in pecuniary emulation; and this, so far as regards the Western civilized communities of the present, is virtually equivalent to saying that it expresses itself in some form of conspicuous waste.

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.