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

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

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

Invention is the mother of necessity.

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

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

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