Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

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

Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.

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

Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community.