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

The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.

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

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.

Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in the bearings. Its net contribution to the outcome is obscuration, distrust, and retardation at every point where it touches the fortunes of modern mankind.

There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.

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