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

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

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.

The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they cannot afford the effort of taking thought for the day after tomorrow; just as the highly prosperous are conservative because they have small occasion to be discontented with the situation as it stands today.

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

Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.