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

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

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

Socialism is a dead horse.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

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

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.