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

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.

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

Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes of industry.

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

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

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